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

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

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2011

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)

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

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

Leaves make a good covering if they can be kept dry, but leaves when not covered get wet, pack down over a plant and too often do more damage than good.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by Latham, A. W.

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.

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