Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham.

  • Robert J. Blackham
Date:
1921
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Credit: Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    88 of bath, there may be mentioned alkaline, acid, mustard, bran, pine, mud, peat, sand, and electric baths. These should never be taken except under the directions of a doctor as to the kind of bath, its duration and character. Aym and Leg Baths—These aremuch used for poisoned wounds. They are given in special trough-shaped vessels. The bath is half-filled with water, to which the prescribed lotion is added. The temperature should be 100° F, Sponging and the hot and cold pack are often ordered by doctors in the treatment of continued fevers. Sponging.—Sponging is employed to reduce the tem- perature during fever by the evaporation of water applied to the surface of the body. Cold or tepid water is generally used. A blanket should be spread under the patient and the night shirt removed, bath-towels being tucked on each side to catch any water that may run down. The bed- clothes, with the exception of one Llanket, are removed. After sponging, the patient should only be lightly dabbed with a towel. The water should be maintained at the temperature ordered by the doctor by adding either hot water or ice, according to the time of the year. The Hot Pack.—Prepare the bed by rolling under the patient a long mackintosh, with a Llanket over it. Cover the patient with a blanket and remove his shirt. Take a large sheet, fold it acrossinto four. Wring it out of water as hot as possible, using a sheet or large bath-towel as a wringer. Lay the patient on his back in the bed, lay the hot sheet over him, moulding it well into him, especially into the neck and down the sides. Turn up the sides of the blanket he is lying on. Cover with a mackintosh and plenty of blankets. _ Hot drinks promote perspiration. The patient should remain in the pack for twenty minutes. The nurse should
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