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TONSILITIS. 



Gargles are used with advantage in this disease, but there is 

 nothing in the form of a wash that will be found better than pure, 

 soft water. It will afford the patient great relief if he will often 

 gargle his throat with tepid .water, by the half hour at a time. In 

 this way a great deal of tough phlegm will be removed from the 

 throat and the soreness will be relieved in a corresponding degree. 

 Washing and rubbing the throat and chest externally, with the hand 

 wet in cold water, will also be found a good remedy. This may, 

 with advantage, be repeated many times daily. Steaming the throat 

 by holding the mouth open over the spout of a kettle of boiling 

 water will often break up the attack, and will always relieve. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 



Treatment This should be similar to that for any other 

 internal inflammation. The stomach also should be thoroughly 

 cleared of its contents as soon as possible. The vomiting is to be 

 kept down by the sedative effect of cold water generally ; the more 

 the fever is kept in check the less of this symptom there will be. 

 Relapses in this disease are common from errors in diet. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 



Having the patient's head projecting a little over the edge of 

 the bed, supported by two persons holding at each end of a linen 

 towel, for the head to rest upon, so that a large quantity of cold or 

 tepid water can be poured upon the head and neck, to be caught in 

 a tub or bucket below, is a good mode. At the same time wet towels 

 are to be placed about the surface of the body, and changed as often 

 as they become warm. These answer all tne purposes of the wet 

 sheet, and prevent the necessity of moving the patient, which it is 

 better to avoid. Bladders of pounded ice, or pounded ice placed 

 between wet linen cloths, laid not upon but near the head, are very 

 useful. 



INJURIES OF THE NERVES. 



The water dressing is as favorable a remedy in the wounds of 

 nerves as it is in other kinds of injury. Few other methods can at 

 all compare with it. 



INSANITY. 



With reference to the use of water, in the cure of insanity, 

 some facts of experience will prove instructive to the reader. 



Dr. Currie gives a case in which the results of the method of 

 employing it were highly satisfactory. The case was that of a man 

 of very irregular habits of life, who was admitted into the asylum at 

 Liverpool in a state of furious insanity. His disease was supposed 



