Show vapor bat baalu these them are ordered to promote the action of the skin in rheumatism dropsy etc the easiest way to give them la in home nursing is to place the patient on a wooden chair standing in a flat bat bath the bath and the patients body must be completely enveloped by z hes and raper paper to help to keep the heat in they must be pta ned round the patients neck so as to leave only the head uncovered covered um an edge of the blan blanket ket must be lifted up and nearly bolling boiling water poured into the bath the feet should rest on the edge of the bath and if the blankets are well arranged no steam QU should escape the vapor must be kept up by adding fresh boiling water or by heated bricks put into the beth bath the patient remains sitting in this steam for about twenty minutes or until a profuse perspiration is produced A good brun bran bath is made by boiling four pounds of bran in one gallon caum of water strain off the liquor and add to it a sufficient quantity of water to flu fill an ordinary bath |