mustard-plaster

plural mustard-plasters

1. alternativeAlternative form of mustard plaster.

   The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.

   1900, Charles Morris, Cyclopedia of practical information, page 487

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   If in a paper on the value of home remedies, however, you offer as fact the statement that mustard-plasters are good for curing colds, you will have to cite a wide and representative sampling of incidents as well as testimony from respected medical authorities to convince your audience.

   1991, Glenn H. Leggett, Carl David Mead, Melinda G. Kramer, Prentice Hall handbook for writers, page 438

   An intelligent, educated, proud, freedom-loving man, in the image of God, has no other way out save to go as a medico into a filthy, stupid, miserable hole of a town —and all his life consists of cupping glasses, leeches, mustard-plasters!

   2001 (originally published in Russian in 1892), Anton Pavolvich Checkhov (English version edited by Charles Neider), “Ward No. 6”, in Short Novels of the Masters, page 435