embrocation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EMBROCA'TION, noun The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part, with a cloth or spunge, dipped in some liquid substance, as spirit, oil. etc. 1. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed or washed.
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