fomentation

How To Use fomentation In A Sentence

• If we condemn Ahmadinejad and other patrons of terrorism, we must, with equal force, commend those Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders who have the courage to speak out publicly against the continued fomentation of Holocaust denial and other manifestations of Judaeophobia in their midst. Menachem Rosensaft: Finding Common Ground
• Indeed, as I soothed my bruised nerves with brandy fomentations that night, I reflected that there were worse places than India; there was Aberdeenshire, with Ignatieff loose in the bracken, hoping to hang my head on his gunroom wall. Fiancée
• Take three cantharides, and removing their head, feet, and wings, triturate their bodies in three cupfuls (cyathi) of water, and when the person who has drunk the draught complains of pain, let him have hot fomentations applied. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
• Hot fomentation, wax bath or ultrasonics can improve symptoms.
• He called it "willful fomentation" and "gratuitous" to republish them throughout Europe. A Muslim Reformer on the Mosque
• Hot fomentations would give great relief, but did not give sufficient rest to the joint to permit of a cure.
• While the external application of warm herbal poultices, plasters, or fomentations is commonly used as a counterirritant to relieve underlying pain and congestion, others having a cooler, anti-inflammatory action are used for the treatment of more inflamed injuries and inflammations, and to promote the healing of burns, tissue, and broken bones. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
• Another kind of fomentation is composed of dried poppyheads, 4 oz. The Book of Household Management
• Turpentine may also be rubbed over the chest with fomentation for the same object. Natural Remedies for Curing Bronchitis
• The infusion of Wormwood makes a useful fomentation for inflammatory pains, and, combined with chamomile flowers and bay leaves, it formed the anodyne fomentation of the earlier dispensatories. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure