The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . hill-ing the feet and producing painful cramps during the bath (Fig. 41).Its short and compact form renders it more portable than the ordinarytub. The Kny-Sheerer Company has constructed the bathtub ofhighly enamelled wood and lined it with tinned copper, thus render-ing it easily cleaned. The height of the tub saves much back strainto the nurses, whose constant attention is required for friction duringcontinuance of the bath. A similar tub has been in const
The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . hill-ing the feet and producing painful cramps during the bath (Fig. 41).Its short and compact form renders it more portable than the ordinarytub. The Kny-Sheerer Company has constructed the bathtub ofhighly enamelled wood and lined it with tinned copper, thus render-ing it easily cleaned. The height of the tub saves much back strainto the nurses, whose constant attention is required for friction duringcontinuance of the bath. A similar tub has been in constant use inthe hospital for five years, and has proved satisfactory and serviceable. THE FULL BATH. 135 The Burr Portable Bath. When the patient or his friends shrink from the seemingly heroictub bath, or when the latter is impracticable on account of lack ofroom or for other reason, the tub of Dr. A. H. Burr, of Chicago, servesa very useful purpose. It consists, first, of a large rubber sheet, withrings attached near its margins by elastic tapes; second, of a lightwooden crib, with fastenings along the lower rail to hold the %*^ Fig. 42.—Burr Portable Bath. A, Frame; B, complete. This frame folds by two movements into a compact bundle. The ac-cessories are a hose with metal yoke for a siphon, a sponge, and a baththermometer. In use, the rubber sheet is first slipped under the pa-tient, brought up over the pillow, and tucked up alongside the frame is then unfolded, placed down over the patient, resting onthe mattress, surrounding patient, pillow, and rubber sheet. Theedges of the sheet are then drawn up over the top rail of the cribdown to the lower rail, and fastened by its rings. This completes alight and perfect tub, capable of holding twenty gallons of water. Itcan be emptied by siphon in four minutes (Fig. 42). A Simple Bed Bath.—Dr. A. C. Haven has devised a serviceablemodification of the Burr bath, which reduces its cost and is moresimple.* Such a bat
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