The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . Thisis called the drip sheet. In the Montefiore Home for chronic diseases, which is really aninstitution for incurables, receiving only the most desperate types ofall chronic diseases, organic and functional, the sheet bath was usedby the author in the form called drip sheet for several years priorto the construction of a douche apparatus. Having proved satisfac-tory, the procedure as there pursued may serve as a guide for its exe-cution in private practice.
The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . Thisis called the drip sheet. In the Montefiore Home for chronic diseases, which is really aninstitution for incurables, receiving only the most desperate types ofall chronic diseases, organic and functional, the sheet bath was usedby the author in the form called drip sheet for several years priorto the construction of a douche apparatus. Having proved satisfac-tory, the procedure as there pursued may serve as a guide for its exe-cution in private practice. 96 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HYDROTHERAPY. Technique of the Drip Sheet.—The temperature of trie room shouldnot be less than 70°. The patient stands in a foot or bath tub con-taining twelve inches of water at 100° F., to prevent chilling; a sheetdipped in water at 75°—daily or less frequently reduced until it reaches60°—is placed dripping over his shoulders and back in the followingmanner. The left upper border of the sheet is held by the left hand,while the right hand gathers the right border into folds. The sheet. Fig. 23.—Drip Sheet. Second position. is now dipped into a bucket of water, from which it is taken drippingand applied under the right axilla of the patient, as shown in Pressing the sheet firmly to his side with the right arm () the patient is directed to turn and thus envelop himself in thewet sheet (Fig. 24). When the entire body is thus covered, the upperborder of the sheet is tucked in around the neck and the lower borderis wrapped around the legs. The attendant now makes rapid passesover the sheet up and down the back, sides, and lower extremitieswith the outstretched hand (Fig. 25), occasionally slapping the surfaceto increase mechanical irritation. A basin of water from ten to fifteen THE PRACTICE OF HYDROTHERAPY. 97 degrees below the temperature of the sheet water is poured over thehead and shoulders two or three times at shor
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