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warm bath for children obtain a large washing-tub. Pour in 
not and cold water sufficient. The warmth should be comfort- 
able to an ordinarily warm hand. If asalt bath, add sufficient 
coarse salt to make it taste as salt as sea water. Then lay, or 
sit the child in it, and rub him all over for three to seven 
minutes.. Take him out, dry him well, and wrap up warm. This 
is of great service in fevers, dysentery, diarrhoea, and cholera. 
For the latter the temperature of the bath should beas high as 
it can be borne; for fevers not so warm. Adults should take 
warm baths for from ten to twenty minutes. 
No. 6, Cotp Compress.—This consists of a piece of linen 
or cotton of the proper size for the purpose, folded four or six 
ply, dipped into cold water, wrung out tightly, and applied to 
the part affected. Over it should be bound a similarly folded 
dry cloth to keep in the moisture and steam that is generated 
by the heat of the body. It is still better if a piece of oilskin, 
or sheet gutta-percha, of suitable size, be put betwixt the wet 
bandage and the dry one. To allay heat and reduce 
inflammation and swelling it is excellent; also to relax 
contracted sinews. For the head in fever, or any other part 
much inflamed, the heat of which it is desirable to reduce 
quickly, the wet bandage may be applied alone uncovered. 
No. 7, Hot STIMULATING ComprRESs.—This consists of a 
flannel bandage, prepared in the same way as the above~ 
mentioned cotton one, dipped into hot water, and cayenne 
pulverized sprinkled on the surface, to be applied next the 
skin, covered over witha dry flannel bandage, in the same way 
as for the cold compress. This is of great service as an 
external stimulant and  counter-excitant for relieving 
inflammation and irritation seated in parts below where it is 
applied. 
No. 8, Foot BATH AND Hip BatH.—(See warm bath.) 
Apply it to the feet, or as high as the hips. Salt, mustard, or 
cayenne are usually prescribed in the warm foot and hip baths. 
In hysterics, headache, faceache, nervous and general debility, 
the warm foot bath is very valuable ; also whenever there is a 
