Fig. 23.
The Sitz-bath pan, though small, is yet of sufficient depth and diameter for all practical purposes, and can be placed wherever is most convenient—on a low chair or a box. The bather should sit on the instrument with the limbs on either side of the funnel through which the hot water enters the pan. Just below the funnel is an overflow tube, under which a vessel should be placed to catch the water as it flows out. While sitting on the pan the elbows may rest on any convenient support, so as not to tire the invalid too much during the bath, which should consume from half an hour to an hour, or longer if agreeable. Hot water may be added every few minutes as the bather finds that the tissues will tolerate it. Depurant powder may also be added to the water in the Sitz-bath pan.
What has been said in a previous chapter on the therapeutic effects of hot water in the treatment of proctitis need not be repeated here.
The three indispensable appliances for combating and effectually overcoming the pathological conditions to which this book and my two previous books—Intestinal Ills and How to Become Strong—are devoted, are The Internal Fountain Bath, The Intestinal Recurrent Douche, and The Shallow Sitz-bath Pan. These appliances are well-nigh perfect for the uses to which they are adapted.
CHAPTER XX.
The Health of School Children.
“Cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.”—Bacon.
The International Congress on School Hygiene ended its fourth meeting at Buffalo recently to meet two years hence in Brussels. In the interim the Board of Education in this city, the Department of Health, and the New York School Luncheon Committee will continue their investigations as vigorously as in the past, and the information thus gained will be an important contribution to the next Congress.