A text-book of practical therapeutics . bottles have been placed alongsidethe patient. Finally the sides of the rubber sheet are drawn around HEAT 597 and over the patient and an iee-cap placed on the head (Fig. 92).A thermometer should be placed in the mouth every fifteen minutes,and if the patients temperature becomes febrile (101° F.) he shouldbe taken out of the blankets and rubbed dry. Ordinarily the bathshould last about one hour, and if sweating does not speedily comeon a glass of cold water should be taken to drive the blood to theskin. In adults a little gin may be added to it, or swe
A text-book of practical therapeutics . bottles have been placed alongsidethe patient. Finally the sides of the rubber sheet are drawn around HEAT 597 and over the patient and an iee-cap placed on the head (Fig. 92).A thermometer should be placed in the mouth every fifteen minutes,and if the patients temperature becomes febrile (101° F.) he shouldbe taken out of the blankets and rubbed dry. Ordinarily the bathshould last about one hour, and if sweating does not speedily comeon a glass of cold water should be taken to drive the blood to theskin. In adults a little gin may be added to it, or sweet spirit ofnitre may be used in this way in children and adults. If no sweatdevelops and the temperature begins to rise, the patient must betaken out of the bath at once. The hot pack in uremia is contra-indicated if there is any tendency to pulmonary edema. The mustard hot pack is often useful in the treatment of internalcongestions and particularly so in the bronchopneumonia of infantsand children. It is to be employed as follows:. Fig. 93.—Frazier-Lentz hot-air apparatus. Oil of mustard, 10 minims (), is thoroughly mixed with a pint(500 cc) of alcohol and water in equal parts, the water being heatedbefore the mixture is made. A large piece of flannel is saturated withthis mixture and the child is wrapped in it from the neck to the feet,and then, in turn, wrapped in a thin blanket. After the lapse of tento twenty minutes the skin will be found to be bright red, and theflannel is then taken off and the child wrapped in another piece offlannel which has been wrung out in a mixture of alcohol and warmwater in the proportion of one to two parts. In this second wrappingthe child lies for half an hour, after which it is again wrapped in a dryblanket or, if the weather is warm, in a dry sheet. The mild counter- 598 REMEDIAL MEASURES OTHER THAN DRUGS irritant effect of this application draws the blood from the congestedlungs, and in the case of eruptive fevers, in which the e
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