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Moist heat is applied by fomentations, or stupes, which consist of cloths wrung from very hot water.
The water may be medicated. A Stupe is a fomentation to which turpentine, iodine, opium, or belladonna has been added. Turpentine stupes are used to relieve distention of the bowels due to gas formation within them and are to be laid over the entire front of the abdomen and changed every fifteen minutes. Applied over the region of the bladder, they also relieve retention of the urine, especially of the nervous type. And especially in winter.