embrocation

The last sentence, applying a little irony to herself as if it were an embrocation, is what we should value most.

One amusing account of whisky’s origin holds that it was invented by the Irish as an embrocation for sick mules.

An Embrocation.—An embrocation is made after this manner:—Px.

They're much as usual, except that I had to pay two bob on Wednesday for a bottle of embrocation for Ally.

It is usually sufficient to employ embrocations or stupes of equal parts of sweet oil and oil of turpentine, or of camphor liniment.