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Definition of Embrocating
1. embrocate [v] - See also: embrocate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embrocating
Literary usage of Embrocating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Adapted to the by John Walker (1874)
"... nnd rub a diseased part with a liquid sub- Ern'-bro-ca" ti»n, 89 : * The act
of embrocating; the liquid or lotion used for ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1824)
"... embrocating, were employed. After giving these various modes of treatment a
trial, Mr. Barlow, supposing matter had formed near the bone, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Diseases of Children: With Directions for the Management by Michael Underwood, Marshall Hall (1835)
"... to be applied as soon as the extremities begin to itch, or become painful; or
if this should not very soon be of use, both embrocating, and covering the ..."
4. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"Dr. Schilling endeavours to increase the determination to the skin, by advising
the use of the warm bath and gentle exercise, and embrocating the body with ..."
5. A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints by Astley Cooper, Bransby Blake Cooper (1851)
"By the use of warm water, and embrocating the part with oil, it gradually gave
way, in the course of about ten weeks, to a moderate degree of force applied ..."
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