hot-water bag
Americannoun
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Inventions for which patents have recently been granted by the U. S. Patent Office: > A hot-water bag equipped with projecting fins to prevent burns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The patient must stay in bed, and the hot-water bag be constantly kept on the ear till all pain ceases.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
That night he went home with her to Johnson's side door, carrying the sachet and the hot-water bag and the things his mother had given her.
From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May
The heat may be by bran poultice, fomentation, or hot-water bag and moist flannel.
From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce
Place them against a hot-water bag, or hold them before an open fire; apply a hot flannel to the abdomen, or let the child lie upon its stomach across a hot-water bag.
From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by Holt, L. Emmett
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