The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . sitz-bath should not be taken immediately before eating, nor withintwo hours and a half after a meal. Moderate exercise after each bath shouldbe taken when the strength of the patient will admit; if not, active frictionenough to secure a reaction should be used. Fig. 81. LEO AND ARM BATHS. The leg-hath is useful in cases of ulcers,swellings, eruptions, gout, or rheumatism,sprains, wounds, and other affections ofthe leg and thigh. A common woodentub similar t
The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . sitz-bath should not be taken immediately before eating, nor withintwo hours and a half after a meal. Moderate exercise after each bath shouldbe taken when the strength of the patient will admit; if not, active frictionenough to secure a reaction should be used. Fig. 81. LEO AND ARM BATHS. The leg-hath is useful in cases of ulcers,swellings, eruptions, gout, or rheumatism,sprains, wounds, and other affections ofthe leg and thigh. A common woodentub similar to that in fig. 81 is a very goodform. The temperature should be mild,varying from 65° to 80°, and may be con-tinued from fifteen minutes to an hour. The immersing of an inflamed or dis-eased part in water, either warm, tepid, orcool, according to the circumstance of eachcase, will exert a powerful influence inmodifying the inflammation. A vessel likethat in fig. 82 is suitable for this purpose. ^|£The fluid, thus not only covers the inflamed Leg-Bath. part of the arm, but contiguous parts, and cools the blood which flows to Fig. 82.
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