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How to use fomentations in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word fomentations? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Hot fomentations would give great relief, but did not give sufficient rest to the joint to permit of a cure.
Peat baths and peat fomentations have been used since the beginning of time to alleviate pain and disease.
There is an art to folding and making fomentations work right.
The abscess may be hastened to a head by hot fomentations or poultices. It is then ready to be opened and drained.
Besides these fomentations, irrigations, inunctions, odoraments, prescribed for the head, there must be the like used for the liver, spleen, stomach, hyperchondries, etc.
Examples from Classical Literature
The use of soap should be avoided, and recourse had to warm fomentations of slippery elm, or thin oat gruel.
Pain is best relieved by hot fomentations, cocain, and in many cases the internal use of salicin or phenacetin.
Stupes or hot fomentations are cloths, preferably of flannel or flannelette, wrung out of boiling water and applied to the skin.
When the pain is extreme, warm fomentations to the belly, or a carminative clyster, will generally give relief.
It was attempted to relieve this induration by emollient fomentations.
Take and boil a quantity of chamomile, and apply the hot fomentations.
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