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Every night about two hours before bed time
let the right hip joint be fomented for an hour.
For this purpose he must employ a flannel of four
ply and of a size sufficient fully to cover the
joint. Two such flannels are to be kept in boiling
or nearly boiling water and one of them taken
out from thence and thrown into a strong Touel
to have the water wrung out from it by hands
on either end of it and by strong hands to have
the moisture wrung out as entirely as possible.
In this condition it is to be applied to the joint
as warm as he can easily bear it and observe
that the drier the flannels are wrung the
warmer he will beat them. When the flannel
is applied let that and the whole of his

The fomentation is to be renewed for four or
five days every evening and for ten or twelve days
afterwards every second evening. If in that time
the motion and power of the joint is not recovered

During the whole time of practising fomenta¬
tion the joint must be kept constantly warm by
the double flannel applied upon it and in the
day time by flannel drawers above the flannel
and by his ordinary Breeches above all. For the
first eight days he should keep entirely within
doors and should keep constantly in view the
defending the whole of his right limb from cold
When the fomentation has been practiced as
directed for four or five days he may then begin
to have Electricity applied every forenoon and
may have from ten to twenty shocks driven
from the haunch to the foot of the right