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  • "Enamelled bath-tub, separate room for a shower, and a sitz-bath!" he exclaimed.

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  • 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.

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  • Where there is a tendency to stoppage of the urine, a warm sitz-bath should be taken.

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  • 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.

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  • The armchair fomentation is more successful than the hot sitz-bath, though this is by no means to be despised.

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  • A very great help to the expecting mother is found in the cold sitz-bath (_see_ Sitting Bath).

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • 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.

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  • 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.

    Papers on Health John Kirk

  • A more powerful application is to have cold water poured over the front of the body while sitting in the sitz-bath, from

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  • 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.

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