Doctors advice to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of the person having high fever. Why?

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Doctors advise to put a wet cloth on the forehead of the person having a high fever because,
Water from the wet strips evaporates taking the latent heat from the forehead for evaporation.
Due to this evaporation, the temperature of the person will come down.

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