The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . ike all other hydri-atric measures, requires care and precision in its application in order tobe followed by good results. A dread of damp sheets is in the mindsof the lay people so intimately associated with rheumatism and coldsthat the idea of being placed into a wet pack calls forth a shudder inthe patient to whom it is novel, while, on the other hand, the hydro-paths who are familiar with it abuse it by claiming innocuity and allmanner of curative virtue
The principles and practice of hydrotherapy : a guide to the application of water in disease for students and practitioners of medicine . ike all other hydri-atric measures, requires care and precision in its application in order tobe followed by good results. A dread of damp sheets is in the mindsof the lay people so intimately associated with rheumatism and coldsthat the idea of being placed into a wet pack calls forth a shudder inthe patient to whom it is novel, while, on the other hand, the hydro-paths who are familiar with it abuse it by claiming innocuity and allmanner of curative virtue for it. 102 THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HYDROTHERAPY. The technique of the wet pack is as follows: A large woollenblanket is spread upon a hair or other mattress, most appropriatelyplaced (if a wire mattress is used a rubber sheet must intervene toprotect it from the moisture) upon a high four-legged cot, best locatedin the middle of the room, so that the attendant may have ready accessto it from all directions. A large coarse linen sheet, well wrung out ofwater of a temperature of from 60° to 70°, appropriate to the case, is. Fig. 26. —Wet Pack in Readiness, Showing Wet Sheet and Blanket. spread upon the blanket, which should be long enough to extend twofeet or more beyond the patients extremities, and so placed that itsleft third hangs over the left edge of the cot (Fig. 26). The patient,provided with a wet turban, now lies upon the cot with arms elevatedabove his head, so that he occupies the junction of the middle withthe right third of the sheet. The latter is now drawn across the bodyfrom right to left; its upper portion is tucked along the left side ofthe trunk; its lower portion is placed between the lower extremities(Fig. 27). The arms are now restored to the side of the body; theleft overhanging portion of the sheet is brought over from left toright so as to envelop the arms and entire body, and its border istucked along the right side, as shown in Fig. 28. Th
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