. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. ree times as large as the area of skin to be must be dipped in water so hot that it is impossible to wringout the flannel with the hands. It can be wrung out by placingit in the middle of a towel, dipping the towel in the water andwringing it out by holding the two ends of the towel; but if thestupes are to be continued for a long time, it is simpler to make astupe wringer. This is done by taking a piece of unbleachedmuslin, with wide hems at the ends, and inserting a stick intoeach
. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. ree times as large as the area of skin to be must be dipped in water so hot that it is impossible to wringout the flannel with the hands. It can be wrung out by placingit in the middle of a towel, dipping the towel in the water andwringing it out by holding the two ends of the towel; but if thestupes are to be continued for a long time, it is simpler to make astupe wringer. This is done by taking a piece of unbleachedmuslin, with wide hems at the ends, and inserting a stick intoeach of these hems. The flannel is placed in the middle of thecloth, and the wringer is held by the sticks and twisted. The doctor may order turpentine stupes to be applied for ten orfifteen minutes. By this he means that you are to change thestupes, removing one as it cools and putting on another, and con-tinuing this for from ten to fifteen minutes. It is customary tovary turpentine stupes with those of plain water, as too much tur-pentine may blister. At the end of the ten or fifteen minutes the. Fig. 56. A stupe wringer. Methods of Giving Various Treatments 131 skin must be dried, and warm flannel or warm absorbent cottonlaid over it. In putting on stupes the flannel is shaken out, laidin loose folds, and then covered with oiled muslin, a towel, or apiece of flannel. Hot and cold compresses. Compresses are pieces of gauze,absorbent cotton, or old muslin, which have been wet in either hotor cold water. They are applied to any part of the body wherethere is acute inflammation. They are applied for fifteen minutesat intervals throughout the day, and must be changed both hot and cold compresses are used, a cold compressbeing applied first, then hot and cold alternating for fifteen applying compresses to an affected eye, use the same carefor your patient and yourself that you do in douching the eye, neverusing the same compress on the two eyes and t
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