Revulsive Com press
Revulsive Com press.—This is an alternate hot and cold application, similar to the alternate compress; but it is named differently to distinguish the two, which differ only in the difference of time of application. While with the alternate hot and cold applications the duration of one temperature is approximately the same as that of the other, in the revulsive compress the hot applications remain on for four or five minutes while the cold, which immediately follow them, re¬main on for only fifteen to forty seconds. There is the same repetition of hot and cold as in the alternate compress, the cold always terminating the treatment.