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mustard-plaster

noun

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of mustard plaster.

    • The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.
    • An intelligent, educated, proud, freedom-loving man, in the image of God, has no other way out save to go as a medico into a filthy, stupid, miserable hole of a town —and all his life consists of cupping glasses, leeches, mustard-plasters!

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