0 a piece of cloth covered with a thick, often warm substance, wrapped around an injury to reduce pain or swelling
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.
