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Why Do Doctors Advise to Put a Strip of Wet Cloth on the Forehead of a Person Having High Fever (Temperature)?

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Why do doctors advise to put a strip of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever (temperature)?

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This depends upon the fact that water in the process of evaporation takes away heat equivalent to latent heat from the patient’s body and thus lowers the temperature of his body.

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