cted with blankets. Sitting on a cane-seated chair over a steaming
pail with a blanket around the neck and body gives a good bath for pain
during menstruation.

Salt-water bath. Tonic action.--Nine to fourteen pounds of sea salt to
fifty gallons of water will redden the skin and give an exhilarating
effect.

Dry Salt Bath sent us with Mothers' Remedies.--"To a basin of water put a
big handful of salt, take a Turkish towel and soak it in the salt water,
wring out and let dry. The salt will adhere to the towel. Use to rub the
body. A tepid bath should be taken next day to remove the salt."

Starch bath.--Add eight ounces of laundry starch to each gallon of water.
This allays skin irritation.

Bran bath.--Put the bran in a bag and allow this to soak in warm water for
an hour before being used; or it may be boiled for an hour and then the
fluid drained and added to the bath water.

Sponge bath.--Water and soap should be ready. Clothes to be put on, well
aired and at hand. Then remove the patient's clothes and wrap him in an
old blanket, expose only the part being washed at a time, wash and dry
this part. Begin with the face and neck, then the chest, abdomen, arms and
back, and lastly the lower extremities. Warm the water at least twice.
Then put on his clean, well aired clothes and into a clean bed, and the
patient will bless you.

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Alcohol sponge bath.--This is given the same way, only sixty per cent
alcohol is used and the parts are allowed to dry themselves.

Tub bath (common).--Prepare everything as to heat, etc. Then carry the
patient or assist him to the tub. Soap him all over and pour water over
him from a large pitcher. The temperature of the water depends upon the
disease. One person should continually rub the patient in typhoid fever to
keep up the circulation while the water is being poured over him. A hot
drink is given before and after these baths and the patient is wrapped
immediately in warm flannel.

Patients are frequently put into a tub with a water temperature of 85 to
90 degrees, and then the water temperature decreased by adding cold water.
This bath must be carefully given.

The cold pack.--It is used to reduce fever, delirium and extreme
nervousness and to induce sleep. Cover the bed with a rubber sheet or
oilcloth, and over this a blanket. Wring a sheet out of cold water and
place this over the blanket. Lay the patient on this sheet and wrap it
around him so that