The salving of this body had become almost a personal dispute between the sea and him.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
So as they passed from ship to ship, salving and binding the hurts of the men, they came at last upon Sir Gawain, where he lay at the bottom of a boat, wounded to the death, for he had received a great blow on the wound that Sir Launcelot had given him.
"Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion"
Beatrice Clay
The whole idea of animal surgery which the incident implies-such as mending broken legs with clay, salving wounds with pitch, or resorting to bandages or amputations-is preposterous.
"Ways of Nature"
John Burroughs