Voorbeelden van poultice

• He used bed rest, bleeding, poultices and 'blisters' as well as a variety of potions.

• I am not one of those in favour of providing palliatives or poultices for problems.

• It is like poulticing a mortifying limb, instead of really getting to the cause of the disease.

• It is almost the poultice of the economic system.

• In the past, we have fallen into the trap of throwing money at problems and of putting poultices on them.

• I came to the conclusion that pneumonia was developing and my wife immediately applied hot poultices to him.

• We have had financial bleedings, industrial purgings, legislative poultices.

• Every now and again a poultice has been applied, but the sickness has never been fully dealt with.