"Enamelled bath-tub, separate room for a shower, and a sitz-bath!" he exclaimed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If from any cause you are restless and cannot lie still, even after the head and spine have been cooled as we have described, it is well to take a sitz-bath in cold water for a few minutes. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
In that case, a long half-or sitz-bath is required, the former, under constant rubbing, from 15 to 20 minutes, the latter from 30 to 40 minutes; the temperature of either from 65° to 70°. ❋ Charles Munde (N/A)
The sitz-bath apparatus should be scientifically adapted to the parts so that the bather will not sit lower than ten or twelve inches, thereby avoiding a straining position. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In cases where a sitz-bath or a half-bath is indispensable, to save the life of a patient, you will find the means of procuring bathing utensils and the necessary quantity of water. ❋ Charles Munde (N/A)
Where there is a tendency to stoppage of the urine, a warm sitz-bath should be taken. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
Besides, the abstraction of electricity, by the sitz-bath, should be taken in account of its action. ❋ Charles Munde (N/A)
It is all very well for a young, strong person, only a very little out of sorts, to take a cold sitz-bath for ten minutes, and then a walk of a mile or two in mountain or seashore air. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
If the vitality be so low as to make the simple sitz-bath a danger, the feet may be immersed, for the one or two minutes of the bath, in a small bath of hot water, and the patient well wrapped up all over in warm blankets. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
For this condition nothing is so good as a very hot sitz-bath, if properly adjusted to the parts and continued for about an hour at a sitting. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
This latter practice is more convenient with very small children, with whom, however, the sitz-bath will scarcely be required, a half-bath of sufficient duration being almost always efficient. ❋ Charles Munde (N/A)
In case of need, a sitz-bath of 75° -- or with weak patients of ❋ Charles Munde (N/A)
The armchair fomentation is more successful than the hot sitz-bath, though this is by no means to be despised. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
I repeated the pack, and the pain not yielding entirely, I gave him one more sitz-bath in the evening and a pack after it, in which he stayed asleep almost all the time, nearly four hours, upon which the rash stood out finely and never disappeared until desquamation set in. ❋ Charles Munde (N/A)
A very great help to the expecting mother is found in the cold sitz-bath (_see_ Sitting Bath). ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
Many preachers take a sitz-bath before going to bed after a day of service, and find that somehow when sitting in the cool water the over-driven brain begins to slacken pace. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
After the sitz-bath, the reaction takes place in those parts which were immersed in the water, thereby making the relief of the upper parts more lasting. ❋ Charles Munde (N/A)
A more powerful application is to have cold water poured over the front of the body while sitting in the sitz-bath, from ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
Where they arise from _indigestion_ as a result of bad food, the cure is found in teaspoonfuls of hot water, and a hot sitz-bath coming up over the bowels. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)
After the sitz-bath, if the patient feel quite easy and inclined to sleep, he may be put to bed; if he continues restless and still complains of pain, he should be put in a wet pack of about 65°. ❋ Charles Munde (N/A)
