ICE IN THE SICK-ROOM

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 41.

ICE IN THE SICK-ROOM.

"A SAUCERFUL of shaved ice," says the New York Medical Times, "may be preserved for twenty-four hours with the thermometer in the room at 90° Fahr., if the following precautions are observed: Put the saucer containing the ice in a soup plate and cover it with another. Place the soup plates thus arranged on a good, heavy pillow, and cover it with another pillow, pressing the pillows so that the plates are completely embedded in them. An old jack-plane set deep is a most excellent thing with which to shave ice. It should be turned bottom upward, and the ice shoved backward and forward over the cutter."