Tokology : $b A book for every womanStockham, Alice B. (Alice Bunker)
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Tokology : $b A book for every woman
Stockham, Alice B. (Alice Bunker)
Women -- Health and hygiene
For habitual cold feet there is no better remedy than bathing the feet
in cold water at bed-time. Have everything ready for retiring. In the
foot-tub put three-fourths of an inch of cold water. Hold the feet in
that half a minute. Then dry with coarse towel and spat them well with
the hand. The reaction gives warm feet for the night, and if persisted
in for three or four weeks, habitual cold feet are often cured.
THE TURKISH OR THERMAL BATH affords one of the best, surest and
safest sanative and therapeutic agents known to medical science. In
a well-appointed establishment for this bath, the subject enters a
room heated from 130° to 160° Fahrenheit; remains there until copious
perspiration is induced. He is then taken to a room, temperature
about 90° deg., where he is laid upon a slab or table and thoroughly
shampooed with soap and water. This is followed by a spray, douche,
shower or plunge bath; then he is dried and thoroughly manipulated by
an attendant, after which he lies upon a couch from half to one hour
to cool and rest. This bath is an expensive luxury, and not within the
reach of rich or poor in any but our larger towns and cities.
A TURKISH OR THERMAL BATH AT HOME, with a simple and inexpensive
apparatus, has equal value as a hygienic or therapeutic agent. Any
woman with ordinary _common_ or _nurse sense_ can give these baths
satisfactorily by observing the following directions:
Take a chair with a wooden seat, an armed office chair preferable,
place in it a piece of flannel blanket so folded that it will fall
down in front; under the chair put a coffee cup one-third filled with
alcohol. If any other vessel is used, be sure the opening is no larger
than a cup, as this gives sufficient surface for the combustion of the
amount of alcohol; have a foot tub in front of the chair, with warm
water for the feet.
The patient is seated in nature’s raiments only, or as Mark Twain says,
“in her complexion,” enveloped closely in woolen blankets. One of these
is put over her in front and the other at the back, outside of the
chair. After she is seated and covered, light the alcohol with a taper.
Don’t risk burning yourself by using a match. The subject will begin to
perspire in from three to five minutes. If blood rushes to the head,
giving a red face and feeling of fullness in the brain, put a napkin
round the neck, wrung from tepid water. This is better than wetting the
head, and it has the advantage of not taking the “crimp” out of her
hair.
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