Descrie the treatment .what was its effect on Tom ?
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In chapter 12, Tom is depressed about Becky's unexplained absence from school, which his Aunt sees as an illness that needs to be treated. Always a fan of the latest health fads, she decides that Tom needs the "bath treatment," which involves dousing the boy with cold water and scrubbing him raw with a towel, or wrapping him in wet sheets and covering him with blankets so he can "sweat out" the sickness. Tom endures this treatment and remains as listless as ever. It seems to have no effect, which drives his Aunt to use the "Pain Killer," a kind of tonic that was "fire in a liquid form." Tom's listlessness immediately ends: "The boy could not have shown a wilder, heartier interest, if she had built a fire under him.” Tom decides that he needs to take steps to end his Aunt's "care," so he concocts a plan that culminates in his feeding a dose of the Pain Killer to the cat, which sends the cat into convulsions. When his Aunt finds out what he has done, she realizes that her "care" perhaps has been too rigorous, even though she persists in thinking that it did Tom good.
The water cure....
The water treatment was new, now, and Tom's low condition was a windfall to her. She had him out at daylight every morning, stood him up in the wood-shed and drowned him with a deluge of cold water; then she scrubbed him down with a towel like a file, and so brought him to; then she rolled him up in a wet sheet and put him away under blankets till she sweated his soul clean and "the yellow stains of it came through his pores"—as Tom said.