Question

Why do doctors advise to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever ?

Answer 1

Answer:

because the wet cloth combat fever by taking latent heat from our forehead

Answer 2

Wet strips absorbs heat from the body and decrease the temperature of the body. this process is called evaporation. Hence to reduce the body temperature doctors advice to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high fever.