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PROCESSES OF WATER-CURE. 315
baby generally goes to sleep in five minutes after being
put in the pack.
The Sweating Blanket Pack is the same process,
but without the wet sheet. Pack the patient in blan
kets thoroughly, and let him stay in until he sweats. If
not too tired, he may sweat half an hour ; then take him
out, and give him a bath.
The blanket pack may also be given just long enough
to accumulate heat, so that the patient may take a cold
bath with advantage. The sweating pack is used where
we wish to purify the system rapidly by the action of the
skin, and where we wish to excite this organ. It may
be used alternately with the wet-sheet pack in skin
diseases, as salt rheum, in chronic rheumatism, in asth
ma and bronchitis, and in all torpid and poisoned condi
tions. Patients full of quinine, calomel, opium, or
tobacco, if they can bear this process, find it a rapid
means of cure. In affections of the throat, which have
resisted Dr. Green's method of cutting and cauterizing,
the blanket pack often proves successful, alternating
with other methods, especially with the wet-sheet
pack.
I have already spoken of injections to the rectum
and vagina. The latter should be cold, and taken with
a syringe that will hold eight
or ten ounces, with a
curved tube, the globular end of which is pierced with
several small holes. By this means a mass of cold
water may be thrown forcibly upon the uterus. These
injections, to the amount of two quarts at a time, may
be taken four or six times a day, and no woman should
be without the means of taking them. They rem
edy, and if persevered in, with other right habits,