water with a sponge from a basin or bowl on a stand placed conveniently
near. There need be no danger of wetting the carpet, or spoiling the
furniture.

When the bath is finished, gather three corners of the rubber cloth in
the left hand, take the fourth corner in the right in such a way as to
form a spout when lifted or held over the slop-jar or bucket. The water
may be poured out in a moment, when the cloth should be spread over the
back of a chair to dry, and the slats unlocked and set away in a closet.

THE FOOT BATH is frequently employed, as a means of causing diaphoresis,
in colds, attacks of acute diseases, and also to draw the blood from the
head or some internal organ. It is a powerful auxiliary in the treatment
of those chronic diseases in which inflammation, congestion, and a
feeble circulation are prominent symptoms. The water should be as hot as
it can be borne and the temperature kept up by additions of hot water.
It may be made stimulating by the addition of salt, mustard, ginger, or
cayenne pepper.

THE SITZ BATH. A tub is so arranged that the patient can sit down in it
while bathing. In this manner the lower part of the abdomen, hips, and
upper part of the thighs, are immersed in whatever fluid the bath is
composed of. It is applicable in diseases of the pelvic organs, and may
be hot, warm, cool, cold, or medicated, according to the effect desired.

The bath tub should be large enough to permit a thorough rubbing and
kneading of the diseased parts, and the patient may remain in it from
ten to thirty minutes. The clothing may be wholly or partially removed,
as agreeable to the individual. A _warm_, sitz bath is an effective,
remedial adjunct in menstrual suppression and in painful menstruation,
gravel, spasmodic and acute inflammatory affections generally. The
_cold_, sitz bath is used as a tonic in cases of relaxed tissues of the
pelvis, in debility of the urino-genital organs, in piles, prolapsus of
the rectum, and in constipation.

THE HEAD BATH. A shallow basin contains the fluid for the bath; and the
patient, assuming a recumbent position, immerses a portion of the head,
generally the back part. The temperature may be warm, cool, or cold, as
desired.

MEDICATED BATHS are infusions of vegetable or other substances in water.
They are sometimes applied with the sponge, though generally the patient
is immersed. The temperature at which they are usually employed is that
of the tepid bath. The natu