They bled to restore strength, administered plasters of verdigris, and made their patients wait for a lucky day to begin a course of treatment.
It smelt of plasters and medicaments of all kinds.
Certainly, at the time I put it on, it was saturated with lotions, and stained by contact with poultices and plasters of all imaginable kinds.
She would put him to bed with hot-water bottles and mustard plasters and feed him hot lemonade.
The old lady next door pottered in and out, putting mustard plasters on his chest and forgetting to take them off, and feeding him nauseous concoctions that she brewed over a coal-oil stove.
But Don Quixote expected one thing, and he of the Mirrors intended another: his only care at present being to get, as soon as possible, plasters for his bruises.
I would rather pay the penalty laid upon such peaceable squires, which, I dare say, cannot be above a couple of pounds of wax; and that will cost me less money than plasters to cure a broken head.
The first are commonly glutinous plasters formed of pitch and rosin, which stick so closely to the part of the skin where they are applied, that when removed, they tear away the hairs with them.
Take, for instance, all these drugs and plasters and healing herbs and potions--all of them have been invented by reason.
In the maids' room two women were busied preparing mustard plasters and poultices, and the rhythmic tinkling of the spoons pierced the silence like the chirping of a cricket.
We have had mustard plasters upon his arms and the calves of his legs.
If our mishap were one of those that are cured with a couple of plasters, it would not be so bad; but I am beginning to think that all the plasters in a hospital almost won't be enough to put us right.
For an emplaster, take of castorium a dram and a half, of opium half a scruple, mixed both together with a little water of life, make two small plasters thereof, and apply them to the temples.
Here is Geoffrey with plasters all over the side of his head, and you, Lionel, looking as pale and thin as if you had gone through a long illness.
One of the adventures looked forward to by Reds and pacifists in distress was to make a pilgrimage to this palace and obtain some long, green plasters to put over their wounds.
Perhaps there might be here some vender of corn-plasters or ink-stain removers, or some three card monte man to whom Peter could attach himself for the price of a sandwich.
The Reds all trusted him; he was a real martyr--look at the plasters all over him now!
Alvina smeared the plasters and applied them to Madame's side, where the pain was.
If it's very bad, I can make one of those plasters mother used.
Illustration] And if he's at the window, And some one passes by, He quickly turns aside his head, Lest they the plasters spy.
From Stephen's lips are heard, Because, with all those plasters on He cannot speak a word.
Thankful am I to escape the clutches of that doctor, though, perhaps, it would have been well to have enlisted his generosity, and got him to apply his plasters to my horse, for his legs stand much in need of them.
Apply plastersand ointments to the loins in order to strengthen the fruit in the womb.
Would you have the kindness to make a few plasters and put 'em on?
Mr Fledgeby's evil star showing her the pepper-box on the chimneypiece, she climbed upon a chair, and got it down, and sprinkled all the plasters with a judicious hand.
They applied plasters of bread and ass's milk to their faces at night, and washed them off with milk in the morning.
Rubbing the jaw externally with spirits of camphor or laudanum, or applying mustard plasters or blisters behind the ears, will afford relief.
King Corny set to work compounding plasters and embrocations, preparing all sorts of decoctions of roots and leaves, famous through the country.
They were about twelve in number; some of them had their heads bound up, others had their arms in slings; several had great plasters upon their faces.
To put Burgundy pitch plasters on the breast and back of the neck, often has a good effect; they should be re-spread frequently, and when one part is irritated, change them to another place.
Where the pain is most violent, put on plasters of Burgundy pitch, spread on leather.
