Fomentations [noun]

A warm bath, or fomentation with warm water and Laudanum, will assist, and sometimes relieve alone.

I only wish I were that chap in the mythology with a hundred hands—and every blessed one of them in need of fomentation.

In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania.

Warmth applied externally to the stomach by hot cloths or fomentation.

Another fomentation, a visit from the doctor, who put us all on stout, and dinner was up.

Locally, warm and moist dressings, such as a poultice or fomentation, may be used.

Lead and opium lotion is a useful, soothing application employed as a fomentation.

A blister may also be applied on the head, and the fomentation nevertheless occasionally repeated.

Could a warm bath made of decoction of bark, or a cold fomentation with it, be of service?

Warm water held in the mouth frequently, as a fomentation to the inflamed throat.