The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . Tin Fomenter. Tin Fomenter. continued from twenty minutes to an hour as the case requires. A wet bandage should be applied to the surface, or the part should be sponged off with cool or cold water immediately after the application of the fomentations. This process diminishes the sensitiveness that would occur from its frequent use, and by its tonic effect, fixes an increased amount of blood in the capillary vessels of the part which has been fomented. In the
The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . Tin Fomenter. Tin Fomenter. continued from twenty minutes to an hour as the case requires. A wet bandage should be applied to the surface, or the part should be sponged off with cool or cold water immediately after the application of the fomentations. This process diminishes the sensitiveness that would occur from its frequent use, and by its tonic effect, fixes an increased amount of blood in the capillary vessels of the part which has been fomented. In the early treatment of many chronic diseases which arise from, or areconnected with disease of the abdominal viscera, and especially in the treat-ment of indigestion, the warm abdominal fomentation is of great use inthe early stages of the treatment, to soothe the nervous irritability and re-lieve internal congestion. It should be discontinued after this irritabilityhas been allayed and the patient can bear other forms of treatment. The hot form of fomentation may be applied where the object is to pro-duce a powerful diversion of bloo
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