What is "sores"

Usage examples of "sores".

With the acrid juice of this herb, and of others belonging to the same Ranunculous order, beggars in England used to produce sores about their body for the sake of exciting pity, and getting alms.

Country persons apply these leaves to open sores and wounds, or make a poultice of them, or give fomentations with a hot decoction of the same, or prepare a gargle from the decoction when cold.

The child by this time was a heart-rendering sight to behold, and suffered unknown agonies with the torturing itching and burning of the sores, and so things ran on until my brother, who resides in Buffalo, visited me.

The leaves are astringent, and useful for healing sores when applied thereto, and for dressing wounds.

It seemed from the excruciating agony I suffered, that there must have been an abscess in either the kidney or bladder, and from the large amount of pus discharged at one time, it appeared to me that my kidneys, bladder and the entire urinary organs were one mass of sores and pus mixed with blood.

However, all efforts to heal the sores, as long as dead bone remains, will prove fruitless.

The sores should he throughly cleansed with injections of an alkaline solution, after which bandages, moistened with glycerine, may be applied.

Although the sores were healed in eight months, I did not quit taking it until I was sure it had been entirely routed from my system.

The old sores on my legs are all healed up, and I feel like a new man.

If the sores do not heal, constitutional treatment may be required, as the use of the Golden Medical Discovery.

The profession is diligently cauterizing and poulticing the sores which now and then appear on the surface, but the internal chronic disease, of which these are merely the external signs, is too often overlooked or neglected.

A strong decoction of the root and leaves, sweetened with honey, has been taken successfully to cure scrofulous sores, being administered two or three times a day in doses of a wineglassful persistently for several months.

They afterwards cured these sores by applying fresh mullein leaves to heal them.

An extract of this red clover is now confidently said to have the power of healing scrofulous sores, and of curing cancer.

Fuller tells about a girl cured of twelve scrofulous sores, by drinking daily, for four months, as much as she could of Coltsfoot tea, made so strong from the leaves as to be sweet and glutinous.