cataplasma

Updated: May 11, 2025

There was a colloquy between the Doctor and my hostess, and the word cataplasma sounded repeatedly; also I heard again "dosi forti." The night that followed was perhaps the most horrible I ever passed. Crushed with a sense of uttermost fatigue, I could get no rest.

George Gissing - By the Ionian Sea : Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy