wet-pack

Updated: May 17, 2025

At once she set about the work. In a few rapid sentences exchanged in low voices between her and the doctor Lloyd made herself acquainted with the case. "We've been using the ice-pack and wet-pack to bring down the temperature in place of the cold bath," the doctor explained. "I'm afraid of pericarditis." "Quinine?" inquired Lloyd. "From twenty to forty grains in the morning and evening.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

A few minutes later, sobbing heavily, the elder woman lay in bed, across her forehead and eyes a wet-pack of towel for easement of the headache she and Saxon tacitly accepted as substitute for the brain-storm. When a clatter of hoofs came down the street and stopped, Saxon was able to slip to the front door and wave her hand to Billy. In the kitchen she found Tom waiting in sad anxiousness.

Jack London - The Valley of the Moon