fomentation

A warm bath, or fomentation with warm water and Laudanum, will assist, and sometimes relieve alone.

I only wish I were that chap in the mythology with a hundred hands—and every blessed one of them in need of fomentation.

In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania.

Warmth applied externally to the stomach by hot cloths or fomentation.

Another fomentation, a visit from the doctor, who put us all on stout, and dinner was up.