Cold affusion over the head and neck has proved most efficacious when promptly resorted to, and repeated at short intervals so as to cause a shock.
Cold affusion should be employed, and the diluted liquor ammoniae, or carbonate of ammonia, administered.
Naturally, affusion alone is directed in the case of private baptism.
In the case of the baptism of adults, immersion or affusion are directed as alternatives, the discretion being left with the minister and not with the godparents.
Put the part affected into cold water, or apply a cold affusion for an hour two or three times a day.
If the sprain is a bad one, apply a cold bath or cold affusion to the part for half an hour, then the wet, and afterwards the heating bandage, which change often.
The quality of the paper depends upon the care employed in the preparation, and on the frequent affusion of fresh water.
During the intervals of this process, the fragments of the bark are piled in heaps in wooden troughs, and the affusion of fresh water is repeated till all impurities are carried off.
It is probable that the general warm bath, with cold affusion upon the head at the same time, would prove as efficient as it does in analogous states of typhoid affections.
At the end of every hour the result of the affusion is tested by the thermometer, and if the temperature has not fallen another affusion is practised, and this is kept up until the temperature comes down to 100°, or even less.
Murchison recommends that the cold affusion should be administered by simply placing the patient's head over a basin at the edge of the bed and pouring water on it from a height of two or three feet.
In the form of the cold affusion it is now rarely resorted to, although Currie[31] obtained most excellent results with it.
When the body is moistened with a sponge wet with cold water, or when an affusion by the sponge or shower-bath is used, the skin instantly shrinks, and the whole of its tissue contracts.
In the early use of this form of the sponge-bath, the bather should content himself with a single affusion from the sponge; the body should be quickly wiped with a soft towel, and friction applied with a crash towel or a brush.
The third kind of bathing is that of the shower-bath, which provides a greater amount of affusion than the former, combined with a greater shock to the nervous system.
The English had long used affusion and swimming-baths freely in India.
When Baptism was by affusion or pouring, as is usual at the present time, the affusion was also trine.
There can be little doubt that affusion was practiced instead of immersion, at the discretion of the Priest, in ancient as well as in modern times.
This column would shew that the Spirit of Wine has a greater affinity with Water than with Oils; because any Oily matter whatever, that is dissolved in Spirit of Wine, may be actually separated from it by the affusion of Water.
The whole mass is to be now washed; with which view it is to be stirred about with the affusion of water, allowed to settle, and the supernatant liquor is drawn off.
A few hours after the affusion of the last portion of acid, a slight fire may be kindled in the furnace k.
The manipulations are so easy; and the term of the operation is very distinctly announced by the absence of any sensible nebulosities on the affusion of sea salt into the silver solution, while there remains in it 1/2 thousandth of metal.
The citrate of lime which precipitates being freed from the supernatant foul liquor, is to be well washed with repeated affusion and decantation of water.
For as in them by theAffusion of Oyl of Tartar, a Blewish Liquor is made Green, so in this, by the sole Mixture of the same Oyl, a Greenish Liquor becomes Blew.
There is no instance in which it signifies to make a partial application of water by affusion or sprinkling, or to cleanse, to purify, apart from the literal act of immersion as the means of cleansing or purifying.
The Prayerbook of Edward VI succeeded to the Salisbury Use in 1549; but in this too immersion has the place of honor--affusion is only for the weak.
Affusion (ad fundere, to pour upon) is the allowed alternative to Immersion.
Again, instead of employing an air-pump, a vacuum may be produced by the agency of steam, afterwards condensed by the affusion of cold water.
Similar good results may be secured by the use of cold affusion in cases of high temperature and great restlessness.
He was permitted to completely slake his thirst, and then the affusion was resumed.
On the other hand, if resins be dissolved in spirit of wine, the affusion of water will separate them.
From the solution of bismuth in this acid, a white substance, called magistery of bismuth, is precipitated by the affusion of water.
Catholic): "Since the twelfth century the practice of baptizing by affusion has prevailed in the Catholic Church, as this manner is attended with less inconvenience than baptism by immersion.
It is of no consequence at all whether the person that is baptized is totally immersed, or whether he is merely sprinkled by an affusion of water.
The affusion of water on any substance for the purpose of removing the portion soluble in that fluid.
When the ebullition ceases, it may be renewed at pleasure for a considerable time by the affusionof cold water, which, by condensing the vapour within, occasions a partial vacuum.
To relieve the fit of gout, or to check it at its commencement, the affusion of cold water will be often found effective.
Affusion of cold water and nasal stimulants will frequently remove the fit in mild cases.
