How to Apply and Use Hot Water in all Diseases

  • The Hot Water Throat Bag-The hot water throat bag is made from fine white rubber fastened to the head by a rubber band (see illustration), and is an unfailing remedy for catarrh, hay fever, cold, toothache, headache, earache, neuralgia, etc.

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  • The Hot Water Bottle- No well regulated home should be without a hot water bottle. It is excellent in the application of hot water forimflammations, colic, headache, congestion, cold feet, rheumatism, sprains, etc. etc. It is an excellent warming pan and an excellent feet and hand warmer when riding. These hot water bags in any variety can be purchased at any drug store.

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  • Boiling water may be used in the bags and the heat will be retained many hours. They are soft and pliable and pleasant to the touch, and can be adjusted to any part of the body.

  • Hot water is good for constipation, torpid liver, and relieves colic and flatulence and is of special value.

  • Caution- When hot watter bags or any hot fomentation is removed, replace dry flannel and bathe parts in tepid water and rub til dry.

  • By inflammations it is best to use hot water and then cold water. It seems to give more immediate relief. Hot water is a much better remedy than drugs, paragoric, Dover's powder, or morphine. Always avoid the use of strong poisonous drugs when possible.

  • Those who suffer from cold feet there is no better remedy than to bathe the feet in cold water before retiring and then place a hot water bottle in the bed at the feet. A few weeks of such treatment results in relief if not cure of the most obstinate case.
Bibliographical Reference :  Jeffries, Prof. B.G., and J.L. Nichols, "Searchlight on Health: the Science of Eugeneics",  Published by J.L. Nichols and Company, Naperville, IL,  1919, 1921, pp. 368-369.

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