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Diaphoretics

more stimulating by the addition of salt or strong grog. The length
of time the patient must remain in the bath must be regulated by
his strength and the temperature. Thus in a warm bath he may
remain half an hour, but few can stay in the hot more than ten
or fifteen minutes, the patient after coming out should regain the
natural heat gradually using frictions of warm dry flannel.
But external heat does not always produce it. In Typhus Fever
attended with a constriction of the skin all external applications are
Set at defiance, particularly of a heating nature, the cold will often
produce a diaphoresis. When I was in Europe it was a constant