That consumptive night-sweats may be arrested by sponging the body nightly in salt water.
That a fever patient can be made cool and comfortable by frequent sponging off with soda water.
Faded Goods:--Plush goods and all articles dyed with aniline colors, which have faded from exposure to the light, will look as bright as new after sponging with chloroform.
Sir Samuel Baker says, when speaking of crossing the Atbara River, "I had eight inflated skins attached to the bedstead, on which I lashed our large circular sponging bath, 3ft.
With his sponging friends, I suppose; drinking and gaming at the Corne d'Abondance.
Almost anything that has come in contact with sticky fly paper can be thoroughly cleansed by sponging with kerosene.
If the disease goes on and there is high fever, so that the patient suffers from it, it is better to reduce it by cool sponging than by the coal tar products like antipyrin, acetanilid, etc.
The ice cold sponging is quite as formidable as the full cold bath, for which there is an unsuperable objection in private practice.
Hot and coldsponging may be given to reduce the temperature, a little alcohol can be added to the water or the cold or hot pack may be used.
Sponging the face, temples and neck with water as hot as can be borne relieves the headache of la grippe, which is often very painful and annoying.
To take out wagon grease, which is of two kinds, that made from coal tar may be removed from cloth by an application of petroleum; the other, made from animal fat, responds to a sponging of ether.
What I mean is, that by simply washing or sponging with water you do not really clean your skin.
In other cases, sponging with tepid soap and water, then with tepid water and drying with a hot towel will be ordered.
They travelled about the Continent for several years, sponging upon credulous rich men, and now and then performing successful transmutations by the aid of double-bottomed crucibles and the like.
Other tubs were filled with "vinegar water or what we have" for the sponging of the guns.
In sponging and ramming the men were bidden to keep the sponge or rammer on that side of them opposite to the side exposed to the enemy so that if a shot should strike it, it would not force it into the body of the holder.
Indeed, the use of M'Clinton's soap and water, along with good acetic acid sponging once a week, will prevent many serious ills by securing a constant gentle excretion of hurtful waste through the stimulated skin.
Besides this sponging with acid, and before it is done, the skin should be gently covered with lather (see Lather; Soap).
The necessary sponging and changing should be done daily.
In case of epidemic, then, besides daily sponging with acetic acid or vinegar, and scrupulous cleanliness, everything should be done to increase health and vitality in the household.
Give one good sponging over the body with acetic acid; follow this the evening after with cayenne "tea," afterwards rubbing with warm olive oil.
Sponging all over with warm vinegar is also a most invigorating thing.
It is not early sponging and washing, but a nine days' steaming in unchanged bedclothes which causes chills.
The skin may be stimulated by a smart sponging with vinegar or weak acetic acid, and a rubbing all over with soap lather, and afterwards with hot olive oil.
The patient may on other nights be lathered with soap (see Lather; Soap), and the soapy cloth worn on the back for a night or two, spongingall over with hot vinegar in the morning.
This rubbing may with advantage come after a sponging with M'Clinton's soap (see Soap).
If in the morning there is no evident fever, repeat the sponging with hot vinegar, dry well, rub with hot olive oil, and dry again.
Those who take cold sponge baths in winter and find them severe, should precede the sponging in cold water with a quick sponging off with tepid water, and they should always take these baths in a warm room.
A quicksponging off with cool water followed with vigorous dry rubbing is good, but the rubbing is of greater importance than the sponging.
And to behold him now, seeking small loans with plaintive condescension, sponging for breakfast on an art-student of nineteen, a fallen Don Juan who had neglected to die at the propitious hour, had a colour of romance for young imaginations.
And a little further on, laughingly said, perhaps, but yet with an air of truth: "I never had the slightest hesitation in sponging upon any human creature.
The fellow is a nuisance, and ought to be kicked from the mines, for he makes his living by sponging and stealing.
The hot bath when used for perspiration purposes should be followed by a quick sponging with cold water or by a cold shower.
Naturally, a shower, or at least a quick sponging with cold water, should follow all such baths.
The captain hunted up some clothes for Dick to wear while sponging and as the boy came on deck after putting them on, his first glance fell on the white sails of a schooner yacht which had just passed them, but was then two hundred yards away.
He was used to the fresh, sweet air of his country home and the sloop he was in was arranged like most of the sponging craft, with quarters sufficient for half the crew it carried.
I own a sponging outfit and am just starting out on a cruise, but I'm one man short.
The sponger lay at anchor on thesponging ground for nearly a week before the water was clear enough for work.
The first day of sponging was like a dream to Dick.
What Wilson doesn't know about sailing, sponging and fishing isn't worth knowing.
You know that's where the sponging fleet work at this time, so, in case of storm, they can shelter under the lighthouse key.
The keepers there were isolated from home and friends most of the time, but a straggly fleet of sponging craft from Nassau, Key West, and elsewhere flocked there in time of bad weather.
Sponging and washing for dark atmospheric effect is barbarous, and mere tyro's work, though it is often useful for passages of delicate atmospheric light.
Let him hearken to my story, How the noblest of the land Pined in piteous purgatory, 'Neath a sponging Bailiff's hand.
He and the mate, after warning off the men who had come down to work, spent all the morning in sponging their crew, waiting with an impatience born of fatigue for the rash to come out.
This impatience was shared by the crew, the state of mind of the cook after the fifth sponging calling for severe rebuke on the part of the skipper.
It's all very well to go on ramming and sponging and making believe to load, but it is like having your grog served out in an empty glass.
If the cold spongingis begun in the warm summer time the child will become so accustomed to it that no objection will be made when the cold weather comes.
Cold sponging is used to reduce fever or to allay nervous irritability.
If the fever remains high cold sponging is advisable.
The sponging should be done for about fifteen or twenty minutes, after which the child is wrapped in a dry blanket without further clothing except the diaper.
During the summer months the mother should begin cold sponging of the face, throat, chest, and spine every morning and carry it into the winter.
If the fever is very high it can be controlled by sponging the body with cool water.
Drugs and cold sponging may be used to reduce the fever, but they are dangerous if used when conditions do not justify their use.
Any bleeding which occurs should be entirely arrested, and asepsis must be insured by frequent sponging with carbolic or sublimate solution.
Kellogg, in his Home Hand-Book of Hygiene and Medicine, recommends a salt sponge bath upon retiring, to arrest night sweats, or sponging with hot water.
The heart was stimulated by heat applied over it, whenever depression and collapse threatened, and by hot and cold sponging of the spine.
If the surface is cold, apply hot sponging or a hot pack.
Sponging should be done cautiously lest the foreign body be hidden in secretions or food accumulation, and dislodged.
Stella, who stood sponging the roan horse's neck for the second time.
He chose the last alternative and was kept in the sponging house until his wedding day.
His patients were allowed to drink freely of cold water, or lemonade in moderate quantities, if they preferred, and simple spongingwith tepid water was resorted to when indicated by feverishness of the surface.
Here the physician must rely upon assiduous sponging with water of an agreeable temperature.
If strong enough, they may take a full bath at bedtime; but if too feeble to leave the bed, gentle sponging with warm water will prove most refreshing, and will usually be followed by restful sleep.
An elevated temperature requires frequent sponging of the body.
Lukewarm baths, wet packs, and cool sponging are exceedingly grateful, and often assist in the evolution of a suppressed eruption in the exanthematous fevers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sponging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
