Also 5 stuppe, 6 stoupe, 7 stoup, stuphe, 7–8 stuph. [ad. L. stūpa, stuppa: see STUPA1. Cf. F. étoupe tow.] A piece of tow, flannel, or other soft substance, wrung out of hot liquor and medicated, for fomenting a wound or ailing part.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 53. Wiþinne þe wounde leie þe ȝelke of an ey, wiþ oile of rosis, with stupis, or ellis wiþ lint.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc. 87. Stuppez of lyne or coton.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., 94 b. Applye it with stoupes moysted in water.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 96. A large hot stupe wet in a good lixivium, and wrung out.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., XI. xii. (1678), 286. These stoups I stayed and held to the part with double cloaths.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., III. 76. I rolled up his head upon a Stuphe, dry wrung from the fomentation.
1743. trans. Heister’s Surg., I. xv. (1768), 110. Foment the Eye with Stuphs wrung out of the Decoctions which we prescribed above.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 435. Fomentations and stupes are conveniently made of a length of flannel doubled.
