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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wet pack

I emerged, soaked, and returned the wet pack to my back.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2011

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.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

"Until they come and put me in a wet pack."

From Occasion for Disaster by Garrett, Randall

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.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

We piled a wet pack of handkerchiefs and gauze on his stomach, over the right lower angle, where the appendix ought to be; and we changed it before it got warmed.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)