fomentation

noun3

1. •
   The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain by relaxing the skin, or of discussing (dispersing) tumours.

   • We have already spoken of the great utility of hot fomentation to the stomach and bowels, as a means of relieving intense suffering in any internal organ of the body, or in the extremities. — 1849
2. •
   Encouragement; excitation; instigation.
3. •
   A lotion or poultice applied to a diseased or injured part of the body.

   • […] I purged him with our Quintaessencia Solutiuo, eight dayes together, that being done I made him a fomentation, that caused him to sweate well, and to spitte aboundaunce, […] — 1580