Hot fomentations would give great relief, but did not give sufficient rest to the joint to permit of a cure. |
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Peat baths and peat fomentations have been used since the beginning of time to alleviate pain and disease. |
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There is an art to folding and making fomentations work right. |
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The abscess may be hastened to a head by hot fomentations or poultices. It is then ready to be opened and drained. |
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Besides these fomentations, irrigations, inunctions, odoraments, prescribed for the head, there must be the like used for the liver, spleen, stomach, hyperchondries, etc. |
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