POULTICE  , a See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of See also:

• LINSEED

linseed-See also:

• MEAL

meal, See also:

• BREAD

bread or other substance, sometimes of medicinal herbs, mixed with boiling See also:

• WATER

water and enclosed in See also:

• MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan)

muslin or See also:

• LINEN

linen and applied to the skin to reduce inflammation, to induce warmth, or when mixed with See also:

• MUSTARD

mustard, &c., as a See also:

• COUNTER

counter-irritant . The word seems to have been taken from the plural pultes of the See also:

• LAT

Lat. puls, pottage, See also:

• PULSE

pulse, Gr. See also:

• WARE

ware's .