The patient is to be placed in a large empty tub, and two buckets full of water, of the temperature 75 or 80 degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer … are to be thrown on him." —Dr. Adam Kuhn, Philadelphia, 1793. De Quincey's knowledge is on display ... Science and Medicine of the 1790s

The patient is to be placed in a large empty tub, and two buckets full of water, of the temperature 75 or 80 degrees Fahrenheit's thermometer … are to be thrown on him." —Dr. Adam Kuhn, Philadelphia, 1793. De Quincey's knowledge is on display ... Science and Medicine of the 1790s

Correct. This is a very good method to bring down body temperature in fever without inducing shock into a patient.

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The extract is a very good technique to reduce a person's temperature with care, avoiding bringing the subject to a state of shock. As using lower temperature waters will provoke the patient a shock and might be riskier because it could trigger hypothermia and that is a very dangerous state that if not attended correctly can kill the patient.

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