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Updated: May 7, 2025
You'd never have thought it, to look at her, that she was so fond of poking in dirty places." "Jael!" I said, "Mamma was right about the smells in the back-yard. Margery and I hold our noses" "you'd a deal better hold your tongues," interrupted Jael. "We do, Jael, we do, because I don't like mustard-plasters on my throat, and when the back-yard smells a good deal, my throat is always sore.
She used to go up-stairs, and shut the door and windows tight, and go to bed, and have mustard-plasters on her temples and the back of her neck; and when she came down, after a day or two, she would have bright red spots burnt on her temples and neck, and would look ill. Of course it was very hard not to be exasperated at this.
At last I insisted on being taken to Naples, where I promised myself a speedy recovery in free intercourse with Garibaldi. Gasperini held bravely out against all this madness, and he and Minna had to use force in order to apply the necessary mustard-plasters to the soles of my feet.
Champneys found himself staring and being stared at by the usual crayon portraits of defunct members of the family, at least he hoped they were defunct, the man with a long mule face and neck whiskers; and opposite him his spouse, with her hair worn like mustard-plasters on the skull. "Male and female created He them."
We shall find in the same page the name of the disease and the remedy. Thus: chapped hands glycerine; cold squills; lumbago mustard-plasters; nervous excitement valerian; sleeplessness Dover's powders. This may be very well for slight ailments, but we have attended more funerals of people who were their own doctor than obsequies of any other sort.
Finding him apparently dying, I sent at once for Doctor , meanwhile trying, with the help of the nurse, every means to bring back warmth to his body, administering stimulants, rubbing the extremities with mustard, and applying mustard-plasters.
Because, you jade, you've all but driven a twenty-pound rooster clean through it beak, spurs and tail feathers that's why!" bawled the doctor. "Gad! I shall be black and blue for a fortnight! I'm colicky now: I need a mustard-plaster!" "Two mustard-plasters," I insisted severely: "one on your tongue and the other on your temper!" "Temper?" flared the doctor, and flung up his arms. "Temper?
The subject came up one day while we were crossing the Gulf Stream, and the sea all around us was pretty well covered with patches of yellow weed having much the look of mustard-plasters amidst which a bit of a barnacled spar bobbed along slowly near us, and not far off a new pine plank.
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