A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine . \ or elaterinum, gr. yq, but not by cascara, rhubarb, aloes,senna or phenolphthalein; liq. magnes. citrat. contains an excess of waterand Pluto, etc., an excess of chlorides; concentrated Epsom salts may in-. Fig. 48.—Sweat bath employed in nephritis. duce fatal results, (b) Sweats. Though the functional relation between theskin and kidneys cannot be overestimated, profuse sweating eliminates fluidrather than solids (about 2 gm. each of CI and N per liter). When apatient sweats one quart (1000 ) 7 to 15 grains ( to 1 gm.) of ureaar
A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine . \ or elaterinum, gr. yq, but not by cascara, rhubarb, aloes,senna or phenolphthalein; liq. magnes. citrat. contains an excess of waterand Pluto, etc., an excess of chlorides; concentrated Epsom salts may in-. Fig. 48.—Sweat bath employed in nephritis. duce fatal results, (b) Sweats. Though the functional relation between theskin and kidneys cannot be overestimated, profuse sweating eliminates fluidrather than solids (about 2 gm. each of CI and N per liter). When apatient sweats one quart (1000 ) 7 to 15 grains ( to 1 gm.) of ureaare eliminated. Sweats do not concentrate the blood and predispose touremia, but lower the blood-pressure 10 to 20 mm., by diverting blood fromthe splanchnic to the cutaneous vessels. The author has seen a fatal issueresult from sweating and prefers the old-fashioned full warm bath ofOsborne and Liebermeister, to the more active methods; an ice-bag isplaced on the head to prevent brain congestion. Commencing withwater at body temperature this is raised five or six degrees. Aftertwenty or thirty minutes the patient is removed and wrapped—withoutdrying—in blankets. A hot-air bath may be given by placing a lampunder one end of a stove-pipe which runs by a
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