A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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Credit: A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plying cold water: modes of making the application. Some ad- vise to take a patient out of bed, pour buck- ets of water upon him and then replace him again; while others prefer ‘sponging him with cold water. We have cases, where cold water would be of service, in which our pa- tients are too much reduced to be taken out of bed and placed in a sitting posture without injury. In these cases a different manage- ment will be necessary. The method, which I have adopted, is to turn down the bedclothes and to dash froma pint toa gallon of cold water on the patient’s head, face and body, so as to wet both the bed and body linen tho- roughly. It is better that he should lay ona straw bed when this is done, it 1s not however essential. If his body should be very hot, he may be turned upon his side, and the water dashed upon his back. As soon as his linen and the bedclothes be- gin to dry, and the heat in the head and breast begins to return to the surface, the water should be again applied, and in this way the heat may be képt down to the natural stand- ard or rather below, on the surface, so that
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