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Title: A text-book of practical therapeutics
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hare, H. A. (Hobart Amory), 1862-1931
Subjects: Therapeutics
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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er the blanket, so that the hot air andvapor may surround the body. If the tube be covered with cloth,the loss of heat is slight and the danger of burning the patient isremoved. If this is not practicable, several very hot bricks orstones, thoroughly heated in an oven, may be placed under thechair, or small heated logs of wood may be substituted. When the patient is too feeble to sit in a chair, then it is wise toplace an alcohol lamp at the foot of the bed, with an inverted funnelattached to a tube which passes under the bed-clothing in such away as not to bring the hot air directly against the skin of the patient.The bed-clothing may be slightly raised to allow the hot air to enter.The vapor of the alcohol lamp tends to sweat the patient. This38 594 REMEDIAL MEASURES OTHER THAN DRUGS is also a valuable mode of using external heat in cases of shock(Fig. 89). A modified form of Turkish bath, now commonly resorted to, isthe electric cabinet bath. This consists of a box large enough for
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Fig. 90.—Electric light bath cabinet. the patient to sit in on a stool after he is stripped. His head pro-jects through a hole in the lid and a towel is placed around his neckto keep the hot air in the cabinet from escaping. The box beinglined with 20 to 30 incandescent lamps when the electric current is HEAT 595 turned on they give off a great amount of heat so that within afew moments the temperature in the cabinet is 120° F. By reasonof the stimulating effect of the light upon the skin the patient sweatsas freely at 120° F. as he would in a Turkish bath at 130°, and there-fore is not exposed to very high oppressive heat. Furthermore hishead is not heated, but kept cool by cloths wrung out in ice-water,and, as he does not inhale hot air, his lungs are not exposed to greatchange of temperature when he goes out of doors. This, he shouldnot do, however, in any event before one or two hours. After beingin the cabinet fifteen to twenty minutes he is found to be sweating

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