Question

Give reason doctors advice to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high temperature

Answer 1

Fever is response of body to disease.
when temperature of body is high wet cloth is used to lower down the temperature of body.
By doing so body temperature falls.

Answer 2

when a person is suffering from fever the temperature of the body of the sick person is high by putting wet cloth the temperature is lowered down .
the water evaporates and absorbs the heat from the body and causes cooling and lowers the body temperature that is why Doctors advise us to put wet stripes on the forehead of a person having high fever