Hot baths reduce temperature by causing free perspiration afterward, and cold packs reduce it by coolingthe surface sufficiently long to reduce the heat of the blood, and, if used judiciously, seldom fail of success.
It is my custom to allow cold drinks of water in all cases of measles whenever patients desire it, and I am satisfied that it aids the early appearance of the rash, and certainly is cooling and grateful to the patient.
Recently, however, crystalline paraffine has been obtained from ozokerite by dissolving the latter in warm amyl alcohol; on cooling the greater part separates out in crystals having the luster of mother-of-pearl.
Smells of yam and breadfruit, brown from the baking pits, of fish cooked in green, savoury leaves, and taro spinach stewed with cocoanut cream, crept out upon the cooling air.
And in this, with both packs submerged, but with head safely held above the cooling water, Jolt was stretched out.
How can we be sure whether the bird which covers its eggs is acting with a view to the production of offspring or merely, as some authors have assumed, to the more immediate end of cooling its own breast.
The changes the sun is undergoing may be regarded as evolution in so far as the influence of the cooling medium is a constant one.
With reverent hands they bore him where The summer evening's cooling air Came softly sighing through the trees; The child's proud father on his knees Forgiveness sought of God and Jim, Which dying lips accorded him.
If All the Skies If all the skies were sunshine, Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The coolingsplash of rain.
I said, cooling down and slipping a couple of florins in the man's hand.
The most striking type of jointing is that produced by the cooling of igneous rocks, whereby a regularly columnar structure is developed, often called basaltic structure, such as is found at the Giant's Causeway.
A minor cause of tension-jointing is shrinkage, due either to cooling or to desiccation.
Cullen, of Edinburgh, has given some experiments of cooling by evaporation; and I was present at one made by Dr.
Hence the method, long in use in the east, of cooling liquors, by wrapping the bottles round with a wet cloth, and exposing them to the wind.
If this gentle heating makes matters worse, gentle cooling may be tried.
In mild cases this cooling is easily applied with towels wrung out of cold water, and folded so as to lie at least four-ply thick along the whole spine.
During the cooling see that the heat of the fomentation on the legs is well kept up; change if necessary.
But this will be only if the effectual cooling has put back the disease, or if it has been really mastered.
The eyes may be in such cases rather cold than hot, and not amenable to the cooling applications.
The cooling is done by cloths moistened in cold water and well wrung out, pressed on gently over the part, and renewed as they grow warm.
If this quantity exercise too great a cooling effect, smaller doses will produce very good results.
The towels will need to be changed when hot, and will take from two to five minutes to lose their cooling effect, according to circumstances.
Then you will find the coolingof the chest thoroughly effectual.
Have a second towel ready, and continue cooling with freshly cooled towels perhaps for an hour or an hour-and-a-half.
The cooling can be done by pressing towels wrung out of cold water all over the heart region of the left side.
It is the Sierra Nevada, the pride and delight of Granada; the source of her cooling breezes and perpetual verdure, of her gushing fountains and perennial streams.
Not a selfish child at all was John, for he meditated dividing the grapes with Alice, and they would have been so sweet and cooling while the children stood there listening to the story.
For most purposes it is more convenient to select a temperature sufficiently high to avoid the necessity of cooling at any time.
The chloride of ammonium remains as a white mass which, after cooling in a desiccator, is weighed.
The evil is best guarded against by slowcooling and avoiding draughts.
On cooling and extracting with water, the sulphur will pass into solution as potassium sulphate, which is then filtered off from the insoluble oxides of iron, copper, &c.
These show the importance of always cooling before titrating, and of titrating the assay and standard at the same temperature.
If the metal on cooling remains perfectly clear and bright, then it may be assumed that the tin is of good quality and commercially pure.
Molten silver dissolves oxygen from the air and gives it off on solidifying; the escape of the gas on sudden cooling is violent and, by throwing off particles of the metal, may cause loss.
The water used for cooling should be renewed for each assay.
On taking the glasses out of the oven, they should be at once closed, the clip put on, and after cooling in a desiccator weighed.
For most purposes, however, there is no need for cooling and allowing room for subsequent expansion.
She was obliged to acknowledge that the fervour of her aspirations had been steadily cooling for weeks.
The sun shone, but gentlier; and the earth lay cooling in the mild, pensive effulgence of a summer evening.
On Monday morning, when Beatrice and Anna came downstairs, they found the breakfast odorously cooling on the table, and nobody in the room.
Smaller distillers are worked without a pump, the coolingwater merely passing through by gravitation.
My wind, cooling my broth, Would blow me to an ague when I thought What harm a wind too great might do at sea.
Aside] There all is marr'd; there lies a cooling card.
The King's son have I landed by himself, Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, His arms in this sad knot.
This cooling process is hastened by the evaporation of the perspiration poured out at the same time, as we have seen.
Hence, anything which forces an air current to rise into more rarefied zones above, will lower the pressure upon it and so bring about a cooling effect in which no heat is abstracted.
By far the larger number of minerals have been formed in the cooling and consequent consolidation of molten rock material such as during a volcanic eruption reaches the earth’s surface as lava.
If we inquire why the earth in cooling should tend to approach the tetrahedral figure, an answer is easily found.
If lowered sufficiently, the point of complete saturation will be reached and further cooling must result in precipitation.
As applied to moisture-laden and near-surface winds, the effective agents of adiabatic cooling are the upland areas upon the continents, and especially the ranges of mountains.
Nearly forty-five minutes were wecooling our heels on the platform.
What right had his legal adviser to be cooling his heels in France, when he was searching for him in London?
He had been putting one or two papers into his pocket, probably containing some cooling powder or other remedy for Rupert.
Finally, his display of anger somewhat cooling down, he turned again and continued his way towards Trevlyn Hold.
On cooling it deposited a siliceous matter or chalcedony forming a bason round its base.
To prevent the cooling of the cylinder by the contact of the external air, he surrounded it with a case containing steam, which he again protected by a covering of matters which conduct heat slowly.
But there are other septaria of iron-stone which seem to have had a very different origin, their cavities having been formed in cooling or congealing from an ignited state, as is ingeniously deduced by Dr.
Bearing in mind that in April of the present year the United States sent to England more than eight million pounds of meat, the importance of the new cooling method will be appreciated.
Lunch passed and dinner also; and the evening being very warm, for it was the middle of July, we sat at the open window enjoying the cooling breeze that set in from the sea.
I took off my hat, and held up my face to get all its cooling touch.
The women and girls worked beside the men, and brought them cooling drinks of ginger, molasses, and vinegar, and spread tables of food in the early evening shade for the weary gleaners.
This furnace serves to prevent the cooling of such blooms as are awaiting their turn to be shingled, and of such bars of finished iron as are being made into tools.
The exit may be at any level, but for drying purposes it is better at the top, and it should be controlled by a damper to prevent cooling by excessive currents of air.
