wet pack

American  

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. a type of bath in which wet sheets are applied to the patient.

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wet pack British  

noun

1. med a hot or cold damp sheet or blanket for wrapping around a patient

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Example Sentences

The wet pack and other hydrotherapeutic measures have been employed to act upon the skin and to effect a direct reduction of temperature in influenza.

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When this latter condition is presented, especially if at the same time ur�mic symptoms exist, dry cups should be applied over the kidneys, to be followed by the use of dry heat, and free perspiration should be promoted by hot-air baths or by the hot wet pack.

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In employing the wet pack two beds should be placed side by side.

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In fevers of great violence the systematic application of cold by means of baths or the wet pack is capable in some cases of rendering important service.

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If the quinia should prove ineffectual or else be rejected by the patient, the physician should not hesitate to abstract heat by cold water in the shape of the wet pack or the general bath.

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