sinapizing

Updated: May 6, 2025

There are others in the world these are no flimflam stories, nor tales of a tub who, being much troubled with the toothache, after they had spent their goods upon physicians without receiving at all any ease of their pain, have found no more ready remedy than to put the said Chronicles betwixt two pieces of linen cloth made somewhat hot, and so apply them to the place that smarteth, sinapizing them with a little powder of projection, otherwise called doribus.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2