. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . e some objections, however, to this method of wetting thvdressing; the affected part, if great care is not observed, may becomeat one time too hot, and at another too cold. It is, moreover, in somerespects an inconvenient way of applying the water, as, for example,in the night. - As an improvement upon this method, what is termed in surgeryirrigation, has been recom- Fig. 156. mended. There are severa
. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . e some objections, however, to this method of wetting thvdressing; the affected part, if great care is not observed, may becomeat one time too hot, and at another too cold. It is, moreover, in somerespects an inconvenient way of applying the water, as, for example,in the night. - As an improvement upon this method, what is termed in surgeryirrigation, has been recom- Fig. 156. mended. There are severalways of accomplishing thisobject, one of which is repre-sented in fig. 156. We will suppose it a caseof tcald, burn, or wound uponthe arm. The affected limbis laid upon a pillow or cush-ion, with a piece of oilclothover it, arranged in such away as to conduct the wateroff into a basin or other ves-sel, as seen in the cut. Abucket of water is suspendedover the bed, or set upon a ta-ble near the patient. The inflamed part having upon it iebioatio*. some lint or soft linen cloths, the water is conducted to these by meansof a strip of woolen or other cloth, wide at one end and pointed at the. 654 Of Wounds, Hemorrhages, etc. other, and which, hanging from the bucket, the wide end being im-mersed in the water, conducts the fluid to the lint or compresses, onthe principle of a syphon. The cloth should be of considerable widthat one end, and cut so as to be of even taper toward the point. Theamount of fluid thus conveyed will depend partly upon the weightand size of the cloth, and partly upon the depth of the vessel fromwhich it is to be drawn. The temperature of the water may easily beregulated, according to the exigencies of the oase. This method is,however, more suited for the cooling application, since, in the night,for example, warm water might become too cold. But in the refine-ment of French surgical practice, the fluid is sometimes kept at agiven temperature by means of a spi
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