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Definition of Mustard plaster
1. Noun. A plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mustard Plaster
Literary usage of Mustard plaster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"Mustard paper (mustard leaves, as they are called) affords an elegant and convenient
method of applying the mustard plaster. When such a mustard leaf is ..."
2. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America: (The United States by United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (1820)
"When moistened thoroughly with tepid water and applied to the Plaster produces
a decided warmth and reddening of the skin within five Before mustard plaster ..."
3. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1914)
"The old- fashioned home-made mustard plaster has also served me well. ... If the
nurse or mother is told merely to put a mustard plaster on the chest, ..."
4. Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis (1864)
"... over them—Ihe Major Puts him to bed, and applies a mustard-plaster—He Revives,
and propose! a Conundrum—The Major also proposes one. WASHINGTON, Nov. ..."
5. Advanced First-aid Instructions for Miners: A Report on Standardization by George H. Halberstadt, United States Bureau of Mines, August F. Knoefel, William Aloysius Lynott, Walter Scott Rountree, Matthew Joseph Shields (1917)
"The mustard poultice or mustard plaster and the turpentine stupe are the most
... mustard plaster. A mustard plaster may also be made by taking one part of ..."