0 a piece of cloth covered with a thick, often warm substance, wrapped around an injury to reduce pain or swelling --
Had it been the other way round we should have had hot and cold poultices applied all over the economy and all sorts of things tried to remedy the position.
It can be used as a poultice.
I believe, as he does, that throwing money at problems is like putting poultices on wounds.
On this matter we are tired of sticking plaster and poultices, and we want something far more drastic.
We all know that a medicine is often given to a patient to act purely as a mental poultice.
I did not hear the properties of linseed for poultices mentioned amongst the uses to which it is now put.
My earliest recollection of linseed is that it was the main ingredient of a poultice which was supposed to cure all ills.
Every now and again a poultice has been applied, but the sickness has never been fully dealt with.
