. A text-book of practical therapeutics, with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis . URES OTHER THAN DRUGS. palpitation and quiets the heart, decreases the pain and diminishesthe inflammation. It is also useful for cardiac palpitation and forthe rapidly acting heart of fever during the course of pneumonia ortyphoid fever. Cold affusions to the head, and, better still, the use of an ice-bag,have long been highly regarded in the treatment of meningitis and headinjuries; and a hot bottle to the feet and cold to the head w
. A text-book of practical therapeutics, with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis . URES OTHER THAN DRUGS. palpitation and quiets the heart, decreases the pain and diminishesthe inflammation. It is also useful for cardiac palpitation and forthe rapidly acting heart of fever during the course of pneumonia ortyphoid fever. Cold affusions to the head, and, better still, the use of an ice-bag,have long been highly regarded in the treatment of meningitis and headinjuries; and a hot bottle to the feet and cold to the head will ofteninduce sleep in persons who habitually suffer from insomnia. This isparticularly the case with those individuals who are wakeful frommental overwork. On the other hand, cases with insomnia from cere-bral anaemia do well if a cold plunge-bath is taken before going tobed, although in still other cases a hot bath is more efficacious. (SeeHeat.) The latter instances are not due to anaemia, but to nervousirritability, which the heat quiets, whereas the insomnia of cerebralangemia is relieved by a cold plunge by reason of the increased circu- FlG. Showing the application of the cold-water coil to the head in cerebral congestion, headache,meningitis, and in fevers. latory activitv and equal distribution of the blood produced by thebath. (Fig. 58.) When cold is to be applied to the head continuously, it is oftenconvenient to employ a coil made of rubber tubing and so shaped asto fit the vertex. One end of the tubing should reach to a tub ofcold water on one side of the bed and the other to an empty tub onthe other side. By sucking on one tube siphonage is established,and as soon as the liquid has been transferred from one tub thefull tub is raised, the stream is reversed, and the water passes backto its former receptacle. Cold water dashed or sopped against the perineum or the scrotumand the lumbar region is a favorite remedy with some practitionersfor nocturnal seminal e
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