The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . , and the duration from ten minutes to an hour,according to the strength of the patient and the severity of the fever. As 766 AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN. remarked heretofore, too cold a bath will depress the life-powers, or willcall forth more vigorous action, and increase the fever. Prudence, ratherthan heroic treatment, will secure the best results. No more appropriateagent can be found for safely and surely controlling inflammatory condi-tions of the body,
The American family physician : or, Domestic guide to health : for the use of physicians, families, plantations, ships, travelers, etc. . , and the duration from ten minutes to an hour,according to the strength of the patient and the severity of the fever. As 766 AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN. remarked heretofore, too cold a bath will depress the life-powers, or willcall forth more vigorous action, and increase the fever. Prudence, ratherthan heroic treatment, will secure the best results. No more appropriateagent can be found for safely and surely controlling inflammatory condi-tions of the body, than the tepid half-bath. It is invaluable in the treat-ment of the hot stage of intermittents, inflammation of the abdominal andthoracic viscera, eruptive, remittent and typhoid fevers. Of a tempera-ture varying from 65° to 90°, it is successfully used in the treatment ofmineral diseases, mercurial affections of the joints, sick headache, apoplec-tic and congestive fulness of the brain, epileptic, paralytic and hystericalaffections, in sun stroke, intoxication, delirium tremens, acute insan-ity, &c. WET SHEET PACK. ¥ig This remedy can be had at all times andplaces. It is only necessary to have an ordi-nary supply of common bedding and sheet for packing is of cotton, or coarselinen, sufficiently long to reach from thepatients head to the soles of the feet, andtwo yards in width. In feeble chronic casesit is better to have it come not quite to theankles. The bed is then stripped of its cov-ering, one or two pillows being left for theWet Sheet Pack. patients head. One or two comfortables are then spread evenly upon the bed, and upon these two woollen blankets arein like manner spread. The blankets are not so much injured from wet ascotton comfortables, and by their contiguity to the wet sheet which isplaced upon them, they secure a better reaction. In cases of much debil-ity, the reactive powers are feeble, and the nervous system liable to irregu-lar action ; h
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