If the stains look lighter but aren’t gone, repeat the poultice procedure.Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021 If there's still some residual tarnish, repeat the poultice treatment. Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2022 In that case, Forguson recommends applying a broad-spectrum poultice.Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021 And Bachelor in Paradise is a 17th-century doctor applying a poultice of herbs to revitalize my HOT GOSS humor. Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021 Ancient Greeks and Romans ground it into a poultice to relieve back pain and menstrual cramps. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Mar. 2021 Lister and his disciples mostly developed and spread antisepsis through benign breaches of expectation—applying an untested acidic poultice here, treating an otherwise terminal patient without informing them there. Matt Beane, Wired, 8 June 2020 Choctaws used a poultice of its leaves for headaches.Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2020 Choctaws used a poultice of its leaves for headaches.Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2020
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Actually, Sister, in my experience poulticing isn’t much help in these chest cases. Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020 See More
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Noun
Middle English pultes, from Medieval Latin, literally, pap, from Latin, plural of pult-, puls porridge