wet-sheet pack

wet-sheet pack,

n a hydrotherapy technique in which the patient is enveloped in a white sheet that has been soaked in cold water and almost completely wrung out. The patient undresses and lies down securely wrapped in the wet sheet, with two wool blankets above and below him. The treatment proceeds through four phases: the tonic stage, the neutral stage, the heating stage, and the elimination stage. Entire treatment takes 1 to 3 hours.