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

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When a person has fever, his body temperature becomes more than the normal body temperature. If we put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person suffering from high fever, the water evaporates taking heat from the body. Thus, moist strips will lower his body temperature.

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