"mustard-plaster" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1900, Charles Morris, Cyclopedia of practical information, page 487",
          "text": "The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.",
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          "ref": "1991, Glenn H. Leggett, Carl David Mead, Melinda G. Kramer, Prentice Hall handbook for writers, page 438",
          "text": "If in a paper on the value of home remedies, however, you offer as fact the statement that mustard-plasters are good for curing colds, you will have to cite a wide and representative sampling of incidents as well as testimony from respected medical authorities to convince your audience.",
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          "ref": "2001 (originally published in Russian in 1892), Anton Pavolvich Checkhov (English version edited by Charles Neider), “Ward No. 6”, in Short Novels of the Masters, page 435",
          "text": "An intelligent, educated, proud, freedom-loving man, in the image of God, has no other way out save to go as a medico into a filthy, stupid, miserable hole of a town —and all his life consists of cupping glasses, leeches, mustard-plasters!",
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          "ref": "1900, Charles Morris, Cyclopedia of practical information, page 487",
          "text": "The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1991, Glenn H. Leggett, Carl David Mead, Melinda G. Kramer, Prentice Hall handbook for writers, page 438",
          "text": "If in a paper on the value of home remedies, however, you offer as fact the statement that mustard-plasters are good for curing colds, you will have to cite a wide and representative sampling of incidents as well as testimony from respected medical authorities to convince your audience.",
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          "text": "An intelligent, educated, proud, freedom-loving man, in the image of God, has no other way out save to go as a medico into a filthy, stupid, miserable hole of a town —and all his life consists of cupping glasses, leeches, mustard-plasters!",
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