Sentence examples for mustard plaster from inspiring English sources
noun
A poultice of mustard seed powder spread inside a protective dressing and applied to the chest or abdomen to stimulate healing.
A book may be of the nature of a soothing syrup or it may be of the nature of a mustard plaster".
Father had a heavy cold and the doctor told Mother to make him a mustard plaster and leave it on a certain number of minutes.
His wife called the doctor, smeared a mustard plaster on his chest for his cough and rubbed him down with alcohol.
"The Herbal or General History of Plants," by John Gerard, first published in 1597, describes its many uses, including as an aphrodisiac, a treatment for tuberculosis, a mustard plaster and a dewormer.
In one of Trollope's Christmas stories a woman in a Paris hotel on Christmas Eve is suddenly seized with the Dickensian Christmas spirit and goes, all by herself in the middle of the night, to the hotel kitchen to make a soothing mustard plaster for her husband's sore throat — only to enter the room of an unmarried gentleman and mistakenly, and scandalously, mustard plaster him.
By Clarence Day The New Yorker, July 10, 1937 P. 15 Father had a heavy cold and the doctor told Mother to make him a mustard plaster and leave it on a certain number of minutes.
Mustard plasters were formerly used in medicine for their counterirritant properties in treating chest colds and other ailments.
Pneumonia patients were frequently bled or had heated mustard plasters placed on their chests to draw out fluid from the lungs.
Lincoln was laid diagonally across the too short bed, knees up, and naked underneath the mustard plasters that had been placed on his chest.
And what a cousin, walking around in a blanket, a bullet-smashed derby, and a necklace of rattlesnake buttons, selling snake oil and mustard plasters.
He is infatuated with the varieties of things, like cures for consumption: "Mineral salts, the snakebite remedy, decoctions of sulfur and clove, inunctions of iodine and creosote, tablets of strychnine and arsenic... cuppings and clysterings, poultices and vesicants, fly blisters and mustard plasters" and much more.
