| Stupes or hot fomentations are cloths, preferably of flannel or flannelette, wrung out of boiling water and applied to the skin. |
| Peat baths and peat fomentations have been used since the beginning of time to alleviate pain and disease. |
| The use of soap should be avoided, and recourse had to warm fomentations of slippery elm, or thin oat gruel. |
| Pain is best relieved by hot fomentations, cocain, and in many cases the internal use of salicin or phenacetin. |
| There is an art to folding and making fomentations work right. |
| Hot fomentations would give great relief, but did not give sufficient rest to the joint to permit of a cure. |
