HOW TO RELIEVE PAIN

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 44.

HOW TO RELIEVE PAIN.

ONE of the simplest, most convenient, and most effectual means of relieving pain is by the use of hot water externally and internally. For bruises, sprains, and similar accidental hurts, it should be applied immediately, as hot as can be borne, by means of a cloth dipped in the water and laid on the wounded part, or by immersion, if convenient, and the treatment kept up until relief is obtained. The same treatment is helpful in severe neuralgic pains. In indigestion or wind-colic, a cup of hot water taken in sips will often relieve at once. When that is insufficient, a flannel folded in several thicknesses, large enough to fully cover the painful place, should be wrung out of hot water and laid over the seat of the pain. It should be as hot as the skin can bear without injury, and be renewed every ten minutes, or oftener if it feels cool, till the pain is gone.—Exchange.