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the person in his sweat. A trial or two will convince the most skeptical of
the value of this treatment as a means of removing the foul waste matter
accumulated in the system.
Dr. R. T. Trall, the eminent American pioneer of Natural Healing and
the Western Water Cure, says on the above point: “If anyone doubts the
purifying efficacy of the Wet Sheet Pack, he can have a ‘demonstration
strong’ by the following experiment: Take any man in apparently fair health,
who is not accustomed to daily bathing, who lives at a first-class hotel, takes
a bottle of wine at dinner, a glass of brandy and water occasionally, and
smokes from three to six cigars a day. Put him in a pack, and let him soak
one or two hours. On taking him out, the intolerable stench will convince all
persons present that his blood and secretions were exceedingly befouled,
and that a process of depuration is going on rapidly.” If a person is a heavy
meat eater; a heavy drinker; or a steady smoker; the tell-tale sheet will reveal
more than an average amount of excreted foulness, all of which tells its tale
to the thinking person. It is a good thing for the person in ordinary “good
health” to take a Wet Sheet Pack, say once a month, in order to get rid of
the accumulated debris of the system. The condition of the sheet will show
that he needed it.
The Half-Pack. This is a modification of the above mentioned treatment,
and consists in an application of the sheet merely to the trunk of the body—
that is, from the arm pits to the hips. It is used in cases where the patient is
too weak and feeble to stand the effect of the full-pack.
The Sweat Pack. This is a modification of the first mentioned treatment,
its principal difference lying in the fact that the patient drinks freely of hot
water while he is packed up in the blankets. In this treatment, the patient
is required to remain in the pack for at least an hour, in which time he will
perspire freely. He should be washed off after the treatment as above
mentioned. This treatment is rather severe, and many practitioners do not
now use it, they having found that the ordinary Wet Sheet Pack, varied