Definition of Mustard plaster

1. Noun. A plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient.

Exact synonyms: Sinapism
Generic synonyms: Cataplasm, Plaster, Poultice

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mustard Plaster

mustachoed
mustaiba
mustang
mustang mint
mustanging
mustangs
mustard
mustard agent
mustard chlorohydrin
mustard compounds
mustard family
mustard gas
mustard gases
mustard greens
mustard oil
mustard plaster (current term)
mustard sauce
mustard seed
mustard tree
mustardless
mustardlike
mustards
mustardy
musted
mustee
mustees
mustelid
mustelids
musteline
musteline mammal

Literary usage of Mustard plaster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"Mustard paper (mustard leaves, as they are called) affords an elegant and convenient method of applying the mustard plaster. When such a mustard leaf is ..."

2. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America: (The United States by United States Pharmacopoeial Convention (1820)
"When moistened thoroughly with tepid water and applied to the Plaster produces a decided warmth and reddening of the skin within five Before mustard plaster ..."

3. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1914)
"The old- fashioned home-made mustard plaster has also served me well. ... If the nurse or mother is told merely to put a mustard plaster on the chest, ..."

4. Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis (1864)
"... over them—Ihe Major Puts him to bed, and applies a mustard-plaster—He Revives, and propose! a Conundrum—The Major also proposes one. WASHINGTON, Nov. ..."

5. Advanced First-aid Instructions for Miners: A Report on Standardization by George H. Halberstadt, United States Bureau of Mines, August F. Knoefel, William Aloysius Lynott, Walter Scott Rountree, Matthew Joseph Shields (1917)
"The mustard poultice or mustard plaster and the turpentine stupe are the most ... mustard plaster. A mustard plaster may also be made by taking one part of ..."

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