388. _To check violent Hæmorrhage or Flooding after Labours_, nothing is much more effectual than dashing _cold_ water in a pretty full stream, and with some little degree of force, over the abdominal surface, especially the lower portion. At the same time, a piece of soft rag, made into a pyramidical form, thoroughly saturated with cold water, or vinegar and water (in equal parts), should be introduced into the vagina. After the flooding has been subdued, the external application of cold water, or vinegar and water, should be kept on for some time. _N.B._—During a confinement in India, it should be an invariable rule, to meet such an emergency as the above, to have ready at hand two or three _chatties_ of _cold_ water, for a patient may die from loss of blood if the water has to be fetched from a distant source. 389. _In Cholera_, the free use of cold water as a drink appears materially to aid other treatment, of whatsoever kind that may be; it should be as cold as procurable, iced if possible, and taken in large and repeated draughts; although the first four or five draughts may be rejected, its use should still be persevered in; the stomach will eventually retain it, and when this is effected, a beneficial change in the state of the patient generally takes place. Whatever other treatment is adopted, cold water (iced if possible) in copious draughts is a valuable auxiliary, perfectly safe, agreeable to the patient, and likely to be productive of the best effects. 390. _Many forms of Sore Throat, and Coughs attended with Difficulty of Breathing and Scanty Expectoration_, are much benefited by repeated inhalations of hot water, and their efficiency is increased by the addition of mucilaginous agents, as Abelmoschus (1). _In Croup_, relays of sponges filled with water, as hot as the little patient can bear, should be applied immediately beneath the chin, along the whole course of the throat. They should be persevered in for half an hour, and then discontinued if they fail to produce benefit. In severe cases, Turpentine stupes (362) prove more serviceable. 392. _In many painful affections of the Kidneys_, _Bladder, and Uterus_, _in the passage of Gall Stones_, and in _Retention of the Urine from Spasmodic Stricture consequent on a debauch or exposure_, the hot hip-bath proves highly serviceable and soothing.