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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
ADMINISTERING AN INHALATION 
should be oiled. Test the heat by holding it against the 
back of your own hand. Put on slowly and leave for two 
minutes. Watch and remove sooner if the skin becomes 
reddened or if it is uncomfortable. After removing wipe 
away the moisture from the skin and cover with a soft 
piece of muslin, and place a piece of flannel over that. 
A blister after a mustard paste shows very careless nurs- 
ing. Never let a patient go to sleep with a mustard 
plaster on. 
Fomentations or stupes are pieces of flannel wrung 
out of very hot water and placed on the skin. They 
should be two or three times as large as the part to be 
treated, and should be applied as hot as the patient can 
bear them, without burning the skin. Have two sets, 
so that one set will be ready to put on when the other 
is taken off. The stupes should be wrung as dry as 
possible and as they must be very hot to do any good, 
a fomentation wringer is a great protection for the 
hands. One may be made by putting halves of a broom 
handle through the ends of a short roller towel in the 
