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half an hour before 

 douche. 



the 



Patients taking a hot-air bath before being given a Scotch douche. The 

 interior of the cabinet is heated by electricity to induce free perspiration 



the temperature constantly. But all human 

 beings are fallible, and, if the nurse should 

 happen not to be watching the thermometer 

 during those few minutes when the water 

 began to get hot, the patient might be 

 scalded; hence the safety-valve. 



In some hospitals a sheet is stretched 

 across the tub over the patient, only his 

 head projecting. In others there is nothing 

 over the patient, in which case he can 

 escape from the tub. He does that fre- 

 quently at first; but since he has no 

 clothes he finds the temperature of the 

 room chilly and is glad to get into the 

 water again. His meals are served to him 

 in the tub. He sleeps there. He -may 

 remain in the tub for weeks at a time. 

 The continuous bath has also been used 

 with great success in treating 

 severe burns. 



Often before being given 

 Scotch douche treatment a 

 patient is put in a hot-air 

 bath. He sits on a stool 

 in a little cabinet, with 

 his head projecting 

 through the top and a 

 cold cloth bound around it. 

 The interior of the cabinet 

 is heated by electricity to 

 130 or 140 degrees. Soon 

 the patient begins to per- 

 spire profusely. Then he 

 goes under the shower bath. 

 The same result may be 

 obtained by a hot pack for 



Curing Sleeplessness 



A simple treatment 

 for sleeplessness often 

 effectual involves the use 

 of "Neptune's girdle." 

 An old sheet is cut in half. 

 One half is folded until 

 it is about three inches 

 wide. Just before bed- 

 time this is soaked in cold 

 water, wrung out and 

 wrapped around the 

 body at the waist line, 

 next to the skin. The 

 other half of the sheet is 

 folded until it is about 

 five or six inches wide. 

 It is kept dry, and wrap- 

 ped over the first sheet. 

 Another simple way 

 in which water may be used medicinally is 

 in headache. We all know what a relief a 

 cold compress gives to a throbbing head. 

 Sometimes a hot footbath will relieve the 

 pain. If not, try the application of hot and 

 cold water alternately to the back of the neck. 

 The description of the ways in which 

 water is used in mental disorder must not 

 of course be taken to mean that we have 

 discovered a cure for insanity. We have 

 merely found that it is easier for us and 

 more pleasant for the excited patient to 

 subject him to the soothing influences of 

 the warm bath than to beat him with clubs 

 or drug him with powerful narcotics. 



The fastener consists of a tongue 

 and body member attached by 

 means of punch holes and eyes 



Use This and Your Shoe-Laces Will 

 Never Come Untied 



MANY a disposition has been 

 sorely strained because a 

 simple little thing like a shoe- 

 lace wouldn't behave. A 

 Sacramento, California, 

 man — Alexander F. Urgu- 

 hart — has invented a shoe- 

 lace fastener which prom- 

 ises to keep the laces for- 

 ever in the background. 

 The fastener is nothing 

 more than a single piece of 

 stamped metal attached to 

 the shoe half an inch from 

 the strap at the back of the 

 shoe. The laces are drawn 

 up under this and held 

 securely until removed. 



