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Manual Book of Turkish Bath
Manual Book of Turkish Bath
Manual Book of Turkish Bath
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The
Hammdm.
Manual of
Source of Strength
for
Men
and
From Writings
Animals.
of Mr. Urquhart,
Edited by
Sir
John
Fife,
Senior Surgeon
to the
m.d.,
f.r.c.s.,
Newcastle Infirmary.
London, 1865:
John
New
Burlington Street.
Introduction.
BY THE EDITOR.
In introducing to the medical profession and
to the public a
it is
hand
or,
on the other
necessary,
may seem
the
vigour
it
leaves afterwards.
of elasticity and
Introduction.
iv
The
same
persevering
confidence
effect the
which
restoration
to us of this
be well
faith in its
made
so long, or have
revive this
to
institution,
a thousand years.
The
it
is
first
the fate of
new
how generally
remedial agents to be at
forgotten
and
at last
is
who
use
it,
my own
brought
logical
mind of the
it
satisfied
by
his
By
the Editor.
The
effect of this
wise measure
peril id
expense
less
lias
many hundreds
been incurred
of working
men
restoring
in
to their habits
of useful industry.
and
equalize
the arterial
instead
action,
of
part
fa
a process compe-
which might
many
cases
irritation.
It
may be
safe to
conclude that
it
will prove
and
its effects
moro equal
as
it
spasm
in the
vi
Introduction.
excretory ducts
the passage of
gall-stones,
and
stricture of the
may
be easily imagined,
its
joints,
efficacy is re-
matic
indeed, in
many
and rheu-
independent of
irritants so painful in
many
of those counter-
required.
it
much above
100, which
By
bility to cold,
which
is
the Editor.
vii
surface
mities.
in
moisture on
relief of
its surface,
many uneasy
to the
inexpressible
sensations
previously
experienced.
is
instantaneously reached.
having
end,
as
but
the
valuable a
Introduction.
viii
We have yet
it is
a luxury and a
may
which
be exercised as
re-
and frequency;
"
What
is
"
EEPLY.
"
is,
The
practice to
which
minutes.
I then
on the time
the bath.
it
would take
me
to dress without
going to bed.
till
By
the Editor.
ix
about
fifteen
my
it
and most of
care.
till
is
four physicians
remembered that
and four surgeons,
of these,
compound
many
benefits
cases always
fall
my lot,
to
as to the share of
In an hospital of a
gical character,
less sur-
Turkish bath
have witnessed
exercise, in disease as a
I
am
racter,
remedy
by
declaring
my
my
commence
or a palliation,
professional cha-
JOHN
FIFE.
Topics.
1.
2.
artificial
3.
for exercise.
4.
Its
dis-
orders.
5.
Arrests consumption.
6.
10.
in
Discharges
Relief in
Why man
11.
7.
8.
9.
Effects
insanity.
poisons, animal
and mineral.
childbirth.
perspires.
Temperature of various
Detection of disease by the smell.
14. Disease incidental
the
12.
diseases.
13.
to
restriction
by clothing
Construction of
16.
Radiant heat
the source of
17.
life
flesh,
its
wrestlers, boxers
18.
and motion.
and Race Horses.
Productiveness
increased in
regard to work,
Maladies.
of, 310.
Anaesthesia, 101.
Apoplexy, 283, 301, 321.
Barrenness, 6, 49.
Bronchial Inflammation,
vii.
Bruises, 106.
Bright's Disease, 148, 320 ; case,
337.
Burns, 46, 111.
Cancer, 14, 73, 153, 282, 283, 287.
Cataract, case of, 304.
Catarrh, 74, 198.
Childbearing, 46 ; case of, 309.
Childbirth, 6, 51, (note), 325.
Cholera, 37, 112, 196, 281, 282.
Epilepsy, 300.
Fatigue', 188.
Typhus, 402.
Congestion, 32.
Consumption,
Yellow, 112.
Gout, 13, 14, 28, 39, 118, 145, 153,
196, 197, 217, 333, 337, 338, 345.
Corpulence, 79.
Haemoptysis, 274.
Hair, Colour restored, 309.
Cough, 274.
Debility, 275.
Growth
of,
Diabetes, vi.
Diarrhoea, 198.
Diphtheria, 321.
Diseases of the Heart, 11, 16, 17
(note).
197,
vi, 11,
199, 230.
vi,
197,
cases
Headache, 191.
Heartburn, 109.
Hernia, 199.
Inguinal, case
of,
304.
Herpes, 145.
Hoarseness, vii.
Hooping Cough,
to,
300.
54.
Maladies.
Xll
Lumbago,
197.
Myalgia, 72.
Neuralgia, 13, 14, 72, 197, 249.
Peptorrhcea, 149.
Pneumonia, 254.
Poison,
Immunity from,
cases,
302.
PAST
Rheumatic Gout,
Rheumatism, 13,
196,
317.
197,
chronic
case,
II. CATTLE.
Asphyxia, 371.
Jaundice
Mange
Bronchitis, 391.
Colic, 391.
Diseases of Skin, 386.
Distemper (in pigs), 391, 395.
Dropsy, 391.
Dysentery, 391, 393, 394.
Garget (in dairy stock), 391.
Hardness of Udder, 394.
Indigestion, 391.
249
93, 198.
(in sheep),
391.
Strains, 390.
Strangles, 391.
Sturdy
Contents.
PART
I.
-ACTION ON MEN.
Removal 01 Barrenness
49
..
Ease in Childbirth
Effect of the Bath on the Milk
Ovarian Dropsy
Use of tiie Bath in the Tropics
51
53
65
56
Mr.
Page
60
..
121
193
135
..
138
..
141
..
151
154
WHY MAN
Read
A Lecture at Newcastle ..
CONSUMPTION PRODUCED BY HABITS, NOT
.:
CLLMATE
..
TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION BY THE TURKISH
BATH.
PERSPIRES.
By Dr. Leared
158
210
240
259
280
Contents.
xiv
PLEXY
Special Cases
John Fife
304
318345
Smell
347
347
AND
ELECTRICITY,
357
. .
365
375
383
386
389
APPENDIX.
No. 1. Experience of Sunshine on the Body
No. 2. Anticipation of the Remedial Use of Heat
in 1826, by Dr. Gosse, of Geneva
No. 3. Opening of the New Sweating Room at
Jermyn StreetLetter of Dr. Sheppard ..
. .
405
409
412
Part
I.
First
Heat
how
how
Dialogue.*
useful
and
used by him.
July
Present,
Man^
for
2-jtb,
i860.
between 30 and 40
Medical and
Mr. Witt.
How was
it
necessity.
Mr. Wilson.
Your
From
short-hand notes.
tried
it
Heat
Mythology.
in
You
new
some new
botanist discovers a
has discovered
first
discovered
it
as the
who
What
function.
you
was
it,
in the
was
so necessary?
I did not
Mr. Urquhart.
afflicted
effect
and,
the bath
therefore,
when
it
I was
.
it,
and
with success.
had great
myself as
difficulty
would
kill
me.
part,
and
Dr. Sibson.
Mr. Urquhart.
bath ?
They have no
thought of
its
use in
this fashion.
Dr. Sibson.
means of
cleanliness than as a
Heat
Mr. Urquhart.
An
in
Mythology.
illustra-
tions.
investigating fashion.
Experiencing a feeling of
my
faint-
feet
he
I was, however,
immediately relieved
began
and thus I
first
to
doubt
Mr.
Witt.
Are
we
medical 086 of
Mr, Urquhart.
There
who
Heat
in
Mythology.
(Note read.)
It will suffice to connect this
still
the story of Medea, to establish an uninterrupted sequence during more than thirty centuries of this practice
among
Caucasus,
primitive races
with
whom
the Greeks
first,
and subse-
Mr. Wilson.
first
mind of
Mr.
"bath" "heat?"
Mr. Wilson.
to the
to substitute for
"Will
Yes.
ciples."
all
religions
The sun
for
This
the
is
a capsule
stitute
we
seek
Heat
when
in sickness, that
electricity
in Mythology.
is
being
electrical.
We
are
meaning
tians to symbolize
Before
equally
We
so.
know now
was
very substance.
for their
been right,
mulas.
that
its
for
What
origin
man which
have always
essentially
good
for-
always so ancient
is
a mystery.
In the
so high as not to require it.
and for some degrees north and south,
accumulation upon and congestion of the skin is not a
tomperature
torrid
is
zone,
artificially
covered
it
of America have
it
Heat
6
it
tars,
Mythology.
in
it
it
the Tar-
it
remnants of it
Gothic races originally had
come down
Mr.
it too.
no longer to be found.
I thought the bath was particularly
least that it was enjoined by that religion,
to the south it is
.
Mussulman, at
and that religion had its origin in a very hot country.
Mr. Urquhart. That is a common belief in Europe,
but like so
many
other beliefs,
it is
The prac-
into
He
as impure.
these words
in,
suffering
its
use
on a point which nearly touches the feelings of Easterns, and on which depends the perpetuation of the
human race.* His proselytes held that by the agency
of the bath barrenness was removed, and the labour
and danger of childbirth diminished. In confirmation
of this view some interesting particulars will be found
in the letters of Lady Mary W. Montague, f Thus you
have it not in the islands of the Indian Archipelago
you have it not in Japan you have it not in China
you have it not originally in India you have it not in
;
Heat
Arabia,
although
nor among
in
the
Mythology.
primitive
tribes
of Africa
earliest type is
in intertropical regions,
Thus
case of disease. *
but
it
is
Mr. Witt.
You
it
Tuscum provided
hedges, where he could take his walks naked and barefooted daily in the sun.
Mr. Urquhart.
When
speak of antiquity,
You
first
called
Rome
my atten-
so that the
studied, they
We
Look
do not turn
at electricity
habits ?
Mr.
Wilson.
little
As to the influence of
human
surface of the
me
interesting to you.
upon the
caloric
they
may be
my
scientific
man.
We
all
know
there
is
it
joint.
ankle
is
of the sprain of an
applied to
exist,
will lay a
a bone; and he
it
leeches are to be
but which
may come
inflammation;
secondly,
wrong
But
my
is all
after consequences."
any
ill
I,
effects or
" what
is
your theory?"
"Why,"
he
said,
"it
is
caloric: the
occasion,
when he had
felt
it.
It
was
my
face
body
is
that which
is
The
and
my
my
body.
hands which
"Whereupon
covered by
my
my
clothes;" and I
my
face
to the air had given the skin an appreciation of temperature which the rest of the body was incapable of,
and which,
io
dition.
make.
Mr.
Pollard.
The
by the country
practice
with
joints.
his
patients,
which consisted in
ointment with
it,
the
mercurial
of
it,
this evening.
Mr. Urquhart.
The
painfully affected
it
by
this
by a lower temperature ?
Mr. Wilson.-Yes.
Mr. Urquhart. There are therefore two distinct
kinds of sensation of the skin, since it can become sensible in one respect and less sensible in another, and
vice verm ?
Mr. Wilson. Yes.
Mr. Urquhart. Therefore there must be two natures
affected
this point ?
state of
Tbe
sense of pain
the average
is
sensation
a matter of degree
but taking
we endure from
symptoms of disease,
of pain that
logy of man.
Mr. Witt.
to
is
of the skin ?
Mr.
are,
results
A man
comes
able to
move
about, I
am
me
to
if
he
is
if
12
Heat Cures
can then
live on.
still
That it
a priori upon these grounds
the other organs.
through
through
it
should be inferred
it is
you receive
it
that
so,
is
all
it
or
bodies,
external impressions.
manage
it.
It
You
moreover
is
composition
whilst
it
at
of
least)
the
disintegrated
tissues,
is
which
life is
If that organ
that engine
is
it
to relieve
may
healthy activity
is
be.
Now,
act.
Incontestably this
Medicine when
specifically
it
with reference to
its
own
much
by external
heat,
and
is
disease.
But
as
not by chemical
as medicine never
it
follows that
by
all Disorders.
13
Mr. Wilson.
that
It
a bold as
is
it
side.
4s a
broad assertion
all diseases
have
scrofula.
Is
to
it
We have
be cured by heat ?
neuralgia.
We have
poisons
to agree
you why.
Let
me
occurred to
my
mind.
I will explain to
at
one end by
all its
wheels, and
all its
various
concealed from
view.
That machinery
is
difficulty is this
Maw,
my
which gives
Heat Cures
And
I say, if I
itself.
is
the
human
machine
body.
food.
is
Food
is
of the bath.
nutrition.
imperfect
Scrofula
nutrition
is
;
imperfect nutrition
cancer
rheumatism,
indigestion,
is
gout,
Give a power by
neuralgia, are imperfect nutrition.
which nutrition can be regulated, and you can immediately control these various diseases.
Then
if
you take
they
the agent by which
they are to be removed, either primarily or secondarily.
be removed.
have
to
The
skin
poison that
is
The skin
perfectly equal
may
be taken.
to
is
There
is
another class of
but this again
is
all Disorders.
understanding
how
that
of moisture you
make
it
more ready
tissues moisture
which
is
which moisture
nutritive
matter.
sufficiently
this
to
mode
want
know whether
to
my
clearly explained
show that
it is
it
the
I have
action of heat
is
at
want
itself directly,
but that
it
If you
apprehend
you can
can
through the agency of the bath, you are then in a posi-
regulate nutrition,
which
Heat Cures
which are
dependent upon
at all
nutrition.
Is
air
through
slightest doubt of
the action of the air upon the blood through the agency
of the skin, although I must confess that I have been
very
much
who doubted
all
for
an
instant, I cannot
physiologists
enough
a physio-
to
know
bit of skin
turned
in,
just as the
the work
is
down an
all Disorders.
17
The
heart
is
Now,
was a
at
relief afforded
to
itself
may
it
to
there lose
pour
its
it
into
poison or
to say,
tion
if
that
throughout
its
operation
is
elastic
than
this ease
is
My mother
relief
from
prefers
it.
Perspiration in Horses.
and
so,
is
is
is
attributed not
The balance
is
thus
it is
partially restored
them
Weakness ensues
allotted to
toil,
to rest,
When
this happens,
less suffer-
ones.
it
will die.
We
when,
Leo X.,
to represent the
formed,
if it
was not to be of
is
use.
been
These
a warning.
The
impurities of
Disease
is
only
is
given us
man comes
also
from
filth.
ration
Training Horses.
Mr.
Urquhart.
" perspiration
19
weakening."*
is
You
training of horses.
the
the
first
time
in
the
here to-day,
are
thinking
metropolis,
for
about a
man
about
"lowering:" ho will
is earned by the
In Central Asia, the groom
perspiration being
laugh in your
His
face.
bread
seeing
is
They do
it
in
two ways
So long as
if it is sticky.
not in condition.
it
for the
purpose of
is
is
by tasting
it
~o
long as
it
see there
uises it to smart,
till it
ceases to be acrid.
continue
in.
am
Your notions of
not clean
cleanliness
My
sense of cleanliness
is
chemical.
is
Your
not
idea
The Gymnasium
20
is
bath.
of training.
operations.
This
a mystery and an
how
it
The
is
is
the country
done.
It
is
tell
art in itself.
* Champion Belt of
Bath.
ing for the race under notice, he (William Lang) broke down,
one of his legs giving way, and Mr. Martin, his backer and
mentor, was at one time fearful he would not be able to come
to the scratch to contend for the belt which, having twice won,
he had almost within his grasp. Acting upon advice, he had
recourse to Turkish baths, and by local application, almost
daily, he was soon as
sound as a roach,' and on Monday he
appeared in splendid condition indeed, so confident were his
friends and the public generally of his success that odds of 2
to 1, and ultimately 3 to 1, were offered on him."
'
and
the Bath.
horse equal
it
if
condition of
men and
by which
powers
this
Either
against disease
themselves a
name
look at that
little
that
is
like the
who
flushed.
Mr. Wilson.
is
his stomach.
"The Fabm."
ii
Purification
and
A man
rest, sleeplessness,
incapacity.
any con-
man
is
a very important
stomach.
Mr.
Witt.
many
proper.
What
is
who would
upon the bath
here
West ?
We English esteem
Now
know how
filthy I
him
that he
is filthy.
Not only
in the
whole human
Pollution.
race
down
to
23
and
to
mind
every circumstance of
The
life.
instinct
of
standard.
men
" Let us
said,
adopted.
Museum and
look at
of colour
lost the
red,
all sorts
with out-
and yellow
man
stretched arms.
these are
now words
like
manner,
and
I say to
dirty.' "
is
'
is
'
the
distinct
the
five canonical
washings
Clean-
24
Purification
liness
sacrifice to the
The abdest
person.
and
it
Manes
made by an unclean
and
is
a washing
feet,
till
me
if in
the mean-
that
is
to say
if
my
adheres to
skin.
When
pollution
has occurred,
the
washing
consists in
which
is
is
first,
so polluting
way, so
purification
The
it.
also
is
clothes are
excommunication.
Christ on earth
Testament
you
will
now
see
you have hitherto been all words connected with polluand purification. They must remain so until you
tion
Pollution.
own
25
residence.
in
opposition
to
by the other
because
I say,
Where
not possessed,
of course
it
it
Where
of cleanliness.
not practise
it,
S<>
again, of course,
it
By
who do
those
cannot be spoken
about.
.-aw
being accumulated
that rule,
it.
and
in a basin to
and
I practised
be dabbled
in, I
adopted
it
is
other,
No
mankind
classes
and
he
is
sects,
and he establishes
his
all
human
16
human race bv
drinking
it
afterwards.
used to
Cleanliness
be.
is
it
a matter of self-examination,
You must
whom you
are endeavouring
Mr. Wilson.
I
am afraid
cleanliness
But, admitting
cleanliness to be good,
of Great Britan.
you
ingly alike
have
it
at all, in
will
England
and you
will
have
if
vou
it
dis-
and hateful
practical nation
reject.
Mr. Wilson.
Turks P
said,
become Romans or
to a gentleman, a little
going on too quickly." As
" Time only respects that in
which he
I
Lamartine
to
is
in
Early Religions.
It is not
27
an easy operation.
You
races.
It
plague.
It
was in use
In land.
If then
sally in
so if
How
mitants?
is
the undertakers ?
it
it
with
all its
to be introduced ?
Tradesmen of one
be introduced,
to
The
we must have
Who
will be
sort or another.
proper conco-
If the bath
model
insti-
capital
common
or to
undertake
notions.
men
shampooers.
cura-
power of the bath are inseparable from the shamIf we had time, I coidd give you details of
pooing.
tive
cures
?ive
How
28
to introduce
it
as an
life.
You
value,
give to
it its
by bringing
it
attractions
to
Bath.
'the
by introducing habits of
people,
29
politeness,
by affording
man an
by giving
man
to see
of clothes,
of what
idea of
man
another
then
is
it
what man
without his
by enabling one
is,
artificial coverinor
will
desirable
ness.
You
Witt.
Whatever tends
restore
man
each of
its
to destroy this
to himself,
inhabitants.
life
falsi.'
man.
and to
for every
appetite,
is
and I
can,
therefore
When
not clean.
politeness
is
polite,
wanting,
it is
In the East,
impossible
can make
The code of
I
my servant
sit
etiquette
is
down
at
table
with me.
30
Politeness
and
Etiquette
of intellect."
rational
is
and a
between
one
man who
fixed
is
meet together
it is
the beggar
no derogation takes place
table
with the
comes and he sits down at the same
intercourse
prince.
place,
Again
Supposing
that,
workman from
common
by reason of a code of
to all.
etiquette, the
sit
down
at
intercourse
belong to
liness.
among
and each
all
But
namely,
if this distinction is
politeness
and
clean-
own
is
your
1;
Cleanliness.
"
What
you
strikes
as
certain places."
To
and
politeness
sobriety.
is
Sixty million pounds a-year are expended upon stimulants alone in this country.
in part, superinduced
ably,
suffering of body, to
cases, instantaneous
which may be
The
great
enterprise
:
there
is
many
afforded, in
relief.
too simple,
it
is
too easy,
meaiuu
it
is
too
the difficulty.
is
is
very
for
such
stupid.
Mr. Wilson.
formed,
frame
is
The
" in
ii
application of external
it
is
A Case of
32
Boiling water
is
" bath."
poured over
my
feet
I prevent a
blister
from forming
powerful of
all
As many
"
statement I
the
made
in
my
lecture
at
Erompton,
when
there
had been
now
eye-witnesses.
German
of
the
me
to heat a
stove
room.
enabled
those
who
attended
By
same.
malady.
It relieved
me from
pain, but
and a telegraphic
message, indicating a fatal termination, sent thereon to
Acute Disorder.
London.
Then
was
jj
that, as
"I
cannot under-
experiment
triumphantly
influence of
heat.*
Mr. Wilson.
instinct.
Itwas
tween 150 and 175. I have since seen that the difference
lay much deeper having been brought close up to the stare
merely for increase of heat, au unexpected effect followed.
The body was exposed to the rays of heat. These rays have
distinct properties from transmitted heat, as I have since
discovered. This may be termed active heat, as contrasted with
:
passive heat.
34
Case of
to
it
Here a new
by Mr.
I saw a gentleman now
mode
Urquhart.
which
a disease
is
generally
is
able to throw
it
whole night
for
it
for
many
hours
it
almost
for two days, and it struck me that there was an experiment going on which was very interesting to see, and I
should like to know the result of it.
I made an inquiry
to-day,
as to the result
and I find that the result was a
ashamed
to say, in a
much
it,
am
way
detailed to-night.
food?
as
fermentation.
when you
my
case desperate,
certain that
Acute Disorder.
Mr.
Wilson.
You
35
are mistaken.
That
incident
I only considered
it
a case
man would
Mr. Urquhart.
story yet
But
That
is
my
is still
Berlin
to
tell.
Half a dozen friends took tea with me, some of whom are
now present. I was put to bed in the cold room. I was
before I could get the
seized again during the night
other room heated several hours elapsed, and the malady
;
They made no
for
me
at each
hotel as I
and would
made no additional charge. At Dusseldorf the room
was large and lofty, and the heat was up to 190. Mr.
It was no
Wilson has spoken of my " instinct."
arrived.
difficulty
about
it,
It
I am slow and patient at my work.
was a conclusion worked out. In Turkey the large
attendance at the baths, and the opening and shutinstinct.
ting of the
full
of vapour.
it
Nature's Thermometer.
j6
as contrasted
as a medicine, or in lieu of
begin with,
began
to
medicine.
came out
My first
true.
stage, then,
was 112.
This
It
was
but because
it
the sebaceous
glands are
gummy
is
matter
emptied,
that
at
which
not
final,
for to reach
it
Nature's 'Thermometer
the effect
37
of 112
and this again is only practhrough the extraordinary facility presented
to this very end, as I suppose, by the circulation of
the blood.
That blood, at the extremity of its course
;
ticable
flies,
as it were, in air,
the other.
presenting
certain portion of
it is
to
thus constantly
manner
five
minutes
in forty-
will be sub-
much
Dr. Dumbreck,
On
me.
reach.
now
It occurred at Gibraltar.
chief of the
London
staff,
attended
I got
down
four
men from
the Arsenal.
me
as
Dumbreck used
It
Mr. Wilson
38
physiologists,
all
It is
known
the body
of
Therefore,
difficult to
at
he were in a temperature of
if
sight, it
first
large
but
it is
little
at
must be super-heated
is
might be a
and
if all
number
of minutes,
it is
whole of the
which
a state
it
was placed
we can
before.
In
fact, it
scarcely comprehend,
must be
in
possessing the
understand
the
been
dis-
manner
both
combine in such a
from
Sums
valuable qualities
and which
cial
is
gums.
ture,
up.
29
now
It is indestructible,
artifi-
impermeable to mois-
may
inexpensive, and
mode
Of
might be
influ-
in
it
Therefore those of
him here.
who have been fortunate enough
of use to
to see its
them.
fit
up a bath.
The great
question of all
is
the institu-
Mr. Urquhart
40
I think that
to
is
the
subject to
with the objection that the temperature of the bodyI never had to give the answer
which I have now given, because the objection was
never put
and probably if Mr. "Wilson had not been
sitting beside me I should not have thought of doing so
now.
objection, it
[After a pause.]
Mr. Urquhart.
I had intended
to
be concise in an-
We have
spoken of
Of
its
and throwing
off disease.
its
is
now
practised
in
tanning.
Instead
of
laying,
as formerly, skins
Sums
up.
41
it is
not
the
tell-tale blood.
Mr. Urquhart
42
and
at the
it is
is
dropped. This
a third branch.
is
Electricity.
4.
moment
I have got an
and
isolated chamber,
am
if
am
relieved,
it,
and
resume
my
fatigued, I go into
to
fit
work.
but this
is
when
condition he
short of electricity
is
he
is
man
is
not in
a machine and
isolation.
Nor
of generation
is
is
it
mount
his horse, or a
is
Chinaman
Therefore
is
it
unartificial societies'
originally
The type
and
was dark
glass,
at
in.
a later period
it
was
light
Sum!
up.
43
in.
They had the idea of the sun playing on their
naked person which indeed superseded his utility in the
bath.
The only thing I have ventured on in the way
sun
first
tice to a race
so that
when
Cleanliness.
process
and
this alone
sum and
whole contents of
all
is
the apothecaries'
shops in the
three kingdoms.
foreign to the
it is
when
means of cure.
Mr. Wilson.
it is
We claim the
but while I
and within
him
bath
limits of
in reference to the
it
belongs to us
a great medicine.
Mr. Witt.*
* Mr. Witt
Objections of
44
a medical
"
It
is
patient
"
He
it
of
first
all
tells
he did.
am ashamed
put
it off,
it,
till
to
because
fail,"
much
somebody
about
it
as
no notice of
me
said to
one
You must
not
but
you
a thing to be seen
and not
as
is
knew
to
it
if
as a religious act,
ceased to be myself.
am now
science
many diseases
in
which
and
follows that
it
ceives this
new
cantation.
And thus it
by
light,
is
that there
is
that instinct
which
is
that in
is
true.
it
tion of practice,
is
tells
incontrovertible
individual patients.
Their instinct
which
is
them
and
instinct
Medical Men.
will frankly accept
45
by
is
The
incident
may
be an appropriate
so instructing the
many
By
that temperature
which
the
and
140
liver,
man
stomach
becomes
cinder.
could
not
be
to
" Sir.
Dr. Corrigan
46
you
my
about 180. The pain was immediately allayed, and from that
time he experienced none until the time that I returned, late
in the evening, when I had the bath heated up to about 230
in the hottest part kept him in it, varying the heats, for about
an hour and a half. This morning he was in at the same heat,
but for a longer period. The blister which had risen over the
whole injured surface has collapsed, except in one corner.
From my experience, I am satisfied that had he been submitted
to the action of heat immediately on the occurrence of the
burn, the injured part by this time would have exhibited no
traces of the accident.
I have now to submit to you, First, how a temperature of
dry air at 230 did not produce on this child the consequences
which you state to be inevitable even at 140 P Secondly, how
it was that in this case the pain ceased within ten minutes of
his being subjected to a high degree of heat, and that recovery has been the rapid result P
2. A lady resident here (six months enceinte), and in the habit
of taking a bath every morning, complained yesterday of suffering much at night from oppression in the region of the stomach,
:
commended her
on the
left side.
I re-
morn-
lie
at
States Objections.
47
when
but that
taken
off.
Hot
air
human
my
over
foot.
into the
moment
it
was carried
to the extrcmest
itself.
directed
You
will
from
St.
It
valids
I
Dr. Corrigan
48
human
man
frame.
D. Ubquhaet.
To Dr.
Corrigan, Dublin.
I
Urquhart. I
Mr. Wilson.
answer
to that letter.
Mr.
curiosity, for
am
my
hands.
Removal of Barrenness.
(Note to page
At
first,
6.)
I of course believed, in
common with
every
it
produced
fruit fulness
in
paper on the
Farm
on
cattle,
upon me.
On
before
failure
it
came
tried, first
into use;
same individuals,
and then
it
viction with
it
that, as
As
all
purposes, so must
it
the
invigorate for
50
Removal of Barrenness.
each purpose.
on the stomach
formance that
is
is,
to
promote,
and
alike desire
per-
tion.
Some
special one.
and
is
pure heat
calls
which is not
dispersed as' it would be were the heat accompanied by
moisture, or the subject of it encumbered with clothing.
Nor is this all. The activity of secretions must depend
on their purity. The purity of these must depend on
forth an electrical intensity in the body,
Nor
and consequently
so difficult to handle,
is
under review,
the purity of
It
itself
is
the
to
That
it
should
have
required
the case
of these
grave as the
done
well, as
at Bristol,
children at a birth
by the
in
These
Ease
in Childbirth,
is
hoped that
It
of so large a
for the
before
to
it
fertility.
came on the
carpet.
Ease in Childbirth.
(Note to page
6.)
by Mussulman women,
in
its
severe trial
it
is
fever,
and
established
As
complaints,
would
malady, as dreaded by
women
but
who
January 4.
most wonderful is the exemption tiny tTurkisHi
women) seem to enjoy from the curse entailed on the sex.
"What
is
Ease
52
in
They
see all
fortnight's
that affair.
She writes
March
10.
new
one.
The following
is
own
case
Ire-
sure
it
to
of our sex.
lady in a house where we were staying was near her
confinement. They had a bath, but only just completed.
We
fresh
since.
but there
is
a virtue in repetition.
When
it is
own
I recollect
only
case
that for-
Childbirth.
r-i
The following
people
instructive curiosity
is
from a savage
CALIFORNIAN MIDWIFERY.
fifteen
or pool
on the Milk.
Mr. Crawshay.
Tynemouth, Feb. 1, 1863.
Dr. Bramwell, of North Shields, when here to-day, seeing
Letter from
said
the children, who are in the first stage of whooping cough,
complaint
the
the
course
of
be
would
what
see
to
curious
he was
Effect on Milk.
54
with the use of the bath. He expected it would be much modiHe had found the bath had a strong tendency to increase
all excretions
and he concluded, therefore, it would assist in
the throwing off the mucous substance, on the getting rid of
which recovery depended. He has himself had a bath for some
time. He had never tried the bath upon whooping cough, not
having had a case in his house ; but a lady, during the period
of lactation, had found that the use of the bath increased the
mill very considerably without causing any fatigue or exhaustion.
He had most carefully questioned her as to this. Since
he had discovered this, other ladies among his patients had
tried his bath for the same purpose, and in all cases with the
same result. The usual heat of his bath is 150 to 160.
fied.
1864
One lady stated that she felt a decided rush into the breasts
while in the bath, and that she always found after a bath taken
in the evening that there was a much better supply of milk for
the child during the night. The other case I purposely requested to use the bath, with the object of increasing the flow
of milk, which was exceedingly scanty; and I found a good
result
but the lady had not opportunity to continue the use
:
effect.
March, 1864.
lady
obliged to wean her child, from deficiency in the secretion of milk, asked my permission to have a
Turkish bath, about ten days after having weaned her child.
at least a
for
Ovarian Dropsy.
Dr. Toulmin
to
Mr. Urquhari.
these
She took
of
May
six
last,
in
my family.
On December
home
of fluid
show
and
may
am
4,
fearful,
this.
There
is,
sumption
of the largest
number of
its
and inasmuch as
its
altar
victims,
is
it is
tubercular con-
A. Toulmin-
The Use
7.)
Africa.
From
of Guinea, p.
European
and Diseases
119.
in the Tropics.
57
led to pay
tion,
and
more
its
so
it
applicafor the
destructive to
European
life.
I have no hesitation in asserting that not only
myself but many others who have experienced its efficacy by
the speedy restoration to health, can vouch for its superiority
over the ordinary practice of venesection, saline purgatives, and
America.
Appendix,
p.
363.
Among
is
little
mouth of an oven,
is wide enough to
In the place opposite to
the entrance, there is a furnace of stone or raw bricks, with its
mouth outwards, to receive the fuel from without, and a hole
The
allow a
above
man
it
smoke.
The part which unites the furnace to the bath, and which is
about two feet and a half square, is shut with a dry stone of
In the upper part of
Tetzoutle, or some other porous stone.
the vault
When
is
in to bathe,
he
first
lays a mattress
58
in the Tropics.
within the Temazcalli, a pitcher of water, and a bunch of fragrant herbs. He then orders a fire to be made in the furnace,
which is kept burning until the stones which join the Temazcalli
and furnace are quite hot. The person who is to use the bath
enters accompanied
by a domestic; he
is
either
nude or
slightly
As soon
as
habitation.
as also persons
it frequently, and always after childwho have been stung by some poisonous
reptile.
It
is
all
such as have
it would be
to
it.
The Temazcalli is
by the Indians there
so
common that in
many of them.
are
in the Tropics.
59
Asia.
As regards
the
it
It is
Mr. Urquhart.
people of
bath, the
hot-air
to
Makran and
is
is
is
Aba
No
little
frankincense (lubar)
(or
placed upon a
In fever a
added.
Fire
is left
Second Dialogue.
The Medical
Society at Riverside.
Riverside, Rickmanswokth.
Feb. 25, 1861.
Dr. Druitt.
Celsus
advises people,
in fatigued, to be anointed.
of
Mr. Urquhart.
jected to
much
I he
skins of the
wear, and
oil
them.
Dr.
Druitt.
My
question
is,
whether
Rome
in
It
is
Mr. Urquhart.
you about it.
tell
consequently can
know
Roman
I never was in a
tell
bath, and
it.
I have
No
one
is
You
see
oil
for anointing
what he is
from him.
oil
is
is
used.
pollution
Roman Bath.
Roman
bath,
$i
practices or origin,
its
would be
ing that which has brought you here, and which I take
to be
the
Br. Thudichum.
Still,
Roman
Mr.
bath
to
origin of the
Urquhart.
Well
Romans commenced on
they were not a race.
There
she borrowed.
constitution,
the
since
you desire
it.
The
Rome
is
ceremonial,
or architecture.
She drew
We
shut
off,
mentioned.
It
we
is
find
it,
We
it
Romans found
it
When
there,
he began to draw
62
Origin of the
to the South,
Yet, had
it
and
especially in the
known
to
We
may,
the Greeks was neither small nor dark.
that of their
therefore, refer it to an earlier period
day
this
up
bath,
is
and in general
Still, this is
an oven swept
out,
floor.
The bath
The bath
use
had the
tribes
and
Roman
The Gaulish
de-
of the
just as
Romans
of the
Romans
to
another.
but the
change.
gested to
me
same
type, in a
exists to
One
Roman
bath.
my
see."
feet
"What
is
the stoba?"
This
first,
is
the hypocaust
of the
Roman Bath.
63
li
applied, indeed,
ment
by us
showing
common
derivation
source.
is
Origin of the
64
Roman Bath.
the process,
The ancient
streams of water
vases display
at the height of a
man,
Rome.
speak.
The
He
practice
and
eastward,
is
so
normal.
as in
Rome.
Roman
exten-
Waste or Fuel
in
England
all
things
>5
and the
strigil
become iden-
tical
the whole
is
Myra.
especially at
incident of
the Turkish
classical antiquity.
spring
It
Rome
neither
is
itself in
b}'
off-
air.
The
wholly
discussion
says
"
We wash
ill
therefore, not
known
in the time of
Pericles.
Mr. UrquharL
we
to
to say
even on
Their clothing
The
soles of
66
Healthful Clothing
much wear
in
wbich
it
drapery of
and
employ
will not
We
sight,
Rome which we
The
selves.
own
if
or in ordinary
we have to
in the mass
produce,
namely,
that
is,
our habits,
Now,
we
at least
may
individually,
as recovering those
that
is
Robertson.
Speaking of the
commerce
of
and muslins
of the Ancients.
67
Then he goes on
to
remark that
their wants.
all
was probably
it
in con-
which we
No
tind in linen.
application,
no deduction
follows.
There
is,
another reference
indeed,
and
the
to
celebrity
plai
work when
sub-
Gibbon
except in an
of the
written.)
neither
glass
to
his
window,
nor a
shirt
to
his
What
chance
is
then,
artificially
morbid, he
verted
maxims?
great, became
and
change in
she underwent change,
little
all
that
things.
is,
without
68
But
this
was not
it
all
it
allows us
On
is
made
way
of exhibiting the
to leave
no doubt
among some
The toga was woollen, but not flannel that is, the
yarn was hard-twisted or hard-laid. I can show you a
:
Coming
itself.
change presents
true
Roman
fallen into
clothing.
human
They
something approaching our integumental
feet.
the
military
the
sagum
in Ancient Times.
69
have
said,
when
first
At that time
sword."
and heat.* I
much
"Rome
to the stri-
took place
conquest eastward
first
As
conquests
Rome
Then observe
place first among
as the
that region
less
time
so that they
therefore,
it
be disputed that
Rome owed
her
70
When
their retention.
you come
Romans had
decline, the
lost their
bath
they
lost it
in a hurry to lose
to reason about
it)
(at least, so
it
there
is
smother.
fested itself here before even the birth has taken place.
Bath
the
is
heat.
effect.
No
Romans
fashion
goes
had
and
so
the
so completely
Br. Bruitt.
out
at.
I want
far anointing is
per
se.
and atrophy.
Mr.
Urquhart.
already said
have
Dr.
Thudichum.
As
may
question of heat, I
heat
ranging
always
all
of the baths in
you cannot
At the Asiatic
of this dilemma.
we had
a singular illustration
ing
it
lie
it,
it
lecture,
was
being clear
was translating
or even mention-
is
a hot room.
Muscular Pain:
72
We
in.
should be happy to
reinvigorating
this
power.
Mr. Urquhart. You invite me on a great and untrodden physiological field. It is one on which 500 years
hence something may be known. The newly-invented
term myalgia, or muscle-pain, points in that direction,
as inviting inquiry into pain itself, independently of
What an assistance
would be the discovery
of a relief for it
Now we have that relief, and it is
equally common to fatigue. We may, therefore, assume
The relief is again
a relationship between the two.
twofold, being heat and friction, or rather blows.
By
giving blows, you produce pain in your arms by blows
the disease or cause producing
it.
An Arab
camel-driver
is
not be produced
when
may
that
is,
is exposed.
The
from neuralgia, or pain
the surface
suffer
general pain
You have
that
is,
local
pain.
is
give the
air, to
Our life
than sanguineous.
suffers,
When
it
is
is
is
electrical
no
less
pain.
its
73
symptom
disappears, and the muscle thereupon repower of continued action so that you obtain
the results that would otherwise have to await a prolonged cessation from labour, and (he intervention of the
restoring influence of sleep.
I come in exhausted
have
pain accompanying that exhaustion. I should have to
sumes
its
lie for
have
to sleep
upon
it
again in order
to obtain
it.
should
But
again
is
with
nomenclature intervenes
its
What
life
diffused
by the
effect of its
own
self-evident that
human
ingenuity based
itself
These
to
results
if
human
to nature.
iu a science of
line,
and
for
the
future
in the operations of
74
his
'
Adaptation of Bath
to
Climate.
we
feel
Mr. Urquhart.
to
a climate ?
Dr. Leaved.
is
as well adapted to
customs as
we
all,
it
to the dryer
:
Mr. Urquhart.
see
it is
'*
moisture.
Much
its
is
if
the metropolis of the bath, has a climate far more variable than ours.
In the middle of winter, summer is
jc
becomes a
window
pitfall.
glass,
ting clothes
open
many
so
things
no longer to be
seen,
These, then,
feet.
You have
to cold or as to pain.
era,
whether as
tion
make yoof
cam
is
good
for
vour
bodies,
just dis-
consumpfireplaces,
is
climate.
open fireplace
is
desirable.
Mr.
Urqiihnrt.
Dr. Druitf.
is
effect
belief.
heard as-
it
did before.
me
Have you
of a small
The Samovar,
that
y6
Some
sion.
self.
medical
men now
present
communicated
own
to
observation.
kers,
Some
me
and moustache,
hair, whis-
lost
his
Mr.
bald.
Urquhart's secretary,
been
among
who
all classes
much
much more
habit.
Wells
new
yj
celebrated for
its
that
Dr. Drnitf.
fibre.
pat to me.
is
it
has been
it is
better to
A gentleman
to the
extremes! point
lowed, as you
trical,
may
see.
The
hair
is
Take
it
as
as the feet
It is
constantly greasy.
When
man
Development of Electricity.
78
the
first
explain to
him why
the head
is
is
I have to
the head.
and why the hair is put upon the head that it may
This
afford the means of getting lather for the body.
head.
The
hair,
is, in fact, the only unalloyed use of the
when
subject to a
new
may come
Mr.
and the
Bruitt.
may
;
impulse will be
young
hair
not be owing to
its drjTiess ?
as to the
electricity in
first
out.*
electricity of
the hair
off,
Patients
If
the dryness retains it, until an escape is found.
you mean the question as controverting what I have
said, I beg to reply that in this case, were you successful, you would be controverting, not me, but the
" A man
of sixty-two, powerfully
completely broken down by hard living
and excessive work as a navvy, came to the bath, suffering
from emaciation and inability to eat. His head was entirely
After four baths, appearances of hair showed thembald.
built,
selves, in tufts.
filled in, till
Effect on Fatness.
jg
thology.*
Dr. Leafed.
is
true that
The Turks
are noted
Mr
Holland.The Turks
fat
it
Turkish
ladies.
He
says
which has
manna
lbs.; besides
reduced in girth many inches, and in weight
being positively and unquestionably invigorated in body and
mind physical power to take exercise, and mental to enjoy
"
it."
8o
Development of Vigour.
The
By
Mr. Holland.
taking
it
increased.
is
Since
daily, I
my
my
own,
usual amount
my diet
my weight
what I
can perform before and after I have had the bath.
Dr. Thudichwm.
questions there.
ing them
Thirty-six pounds
the person
to the
But
it.
all
if
the time,
is
man
it is
goes
quite
Therefore,
no doubt
that
the bath will increase the fibre, and decrease the dead
matter which we
call fat.
Br. Leared.
the fatness
Mr
popular notion.
such cases
that
to
is
are
The
is
The Turks
Development of Vigour.
they combine slothfulness and energy.
am
not speak-
The value
of the bath, in a military point of view, can be estimated from the health and endurance of their army.
of 1828
9, as
war
time,
levies.
In what vou
call
the Russian war of 1854, there was a French expedition to the Dobroja.
It
it
in hospital.*
had looked to the co-operation of the army surgeons, whose interest it is to stop disease, but hitherto in
I
Skene,
'
'
3.-15U
were
Tunjuir,
p.
370
1S53.
High Temperature
82
However, the idea has at last arisen of introducing the bath into the British array so, at least, I
infer from a letter I received two days ago from Lord
vain.
Herbert.
Br. Rogers.
ask
if it
of the
May
so dry that
we
look upon
Mr. Urquhart.
it
as a
model one ?
it was
I
is
desirable
was merely clearing away groundneed not say groundless, for all
I
objections.
less
If a proobjections are from their nature groundless.
the
evidences
established,
have
not
to be
position be
on that account
called for
if false, its
he is not
witness is examined and cross-examined
the
climate
Whether
be
dry
and hot,
to.
objected
cold,
the
bath
will
be
in
use,
or not in use,
or wet and
;
Dr.
bath
is
introduction of the
cool down,
and be unable
to retain its
normal tempe-
rature.
Mr.
Urquhart.
Really,
this is perplexing.
The
had hitherto to meet, was that
the heat in the bath would kill.
So soon as that
monster is put down, its shadow starts up. Now it is,
" the cold without will destroy."
Let me put your
objection in the form of a proposition, for otherwise
not Dangerous.
it
83
" Alternations
man."
of temperature
to
against
place
human frame."
We
must first
Doubt-
you
less,
climate.
may
our climate
"
therefore add,
will
The
own
alternations of
If I
expect you
cal,
to
the
first,
that
the second,
our minds.
To prove
your
you
ears,
my
case, I
in flesh
Look
and blood.
The proof
at that child
him by pinches
try if
to
stands be lore
:
observe
Br. Druitt.
What
is
Mr. Urquhart,
cold in
Hot
in
the limbs as to
make me
shiver
on touching
tit
Clothing unnecessary
84
down
Philippe
sat
down and
considered
all
Having
Mr. Holland.
He was
I can testify.
observed
the
experiment,
old.
a month.
St.
Large
any consciousness
of
were hanging
from the rocks. I took one of these and rubbed him
from head to foot, and pressed it against him.
He
the difference.
took
it,
played
himself with
to
drop
stalactitic icicles
with
I,
it.
it,
my
in
at
it
and amused
it.
That
Mr. Urquhart.-
am
looked
entitled
to
is
a verdict,
holds alternations
of
my
case,
namely,
and I
that
hold
he
who
temperature to be injurious
to
Our
in
man, has
superadded
to
Climate.
85
mind.
[The bath was here announced as ready. The conversation was continued, but the shorthand notes were
resumed only between two and three hours later.]
Dr. Druitt.
"Will
you
treated so as to enable
tell
them
us
to
how
children should be
go without clothing in
our climate ?
Take
But, as a
Mr. Urquhart.
Dr. Druitt.
questions
you
tell
all
me
vation ?
Dr. Druitt.
experiment
Well,
what
led
you
first to
make the
Mr. Urquhart.
It
would be more
to the
purpose
if I
86
Clothing unnecessary
otherwise than
" narra-
tive."
In 1846
It
was in the
cold.
my
had
to
Darius,
who had no
and
he
was asked
clothes.
One was taken prisoner,
his
body
uncovered.
In turn,
how it was he went with
with
his
he asked his captor how he went
face unScythians,
is
He
covered.
said
he was used to
Mr.
it
am
in
climate.
ancient Britons, as
Mr.
am
it
in point of the
clothes.
by a French writer
of the
chief,
he
ternal ceremonial
company.
clothed
selves.
every one
him
person
else,
may
and yet
time,
when
at night,
in
Our
Climate.
87
Dr. Dniitt.
how you
set
Will
you
tell
Mr. Urquhart.
After great
difficulty
in
Scbiven."
Clothing unnecessary
88
blanket removed.
The removing
nurse
rational
woman. After
my own
We had
become nurse.
was thus
month
The bedroom was to the north, without fire the windows open. The child was on a rug on the floor:
I began by laying the last blanket half over his loins
of October of the very cold winter of 1856.
the
warm
part.
correspond with
Did you find the
which you commenced the experiment
the object
Mr. Urquhart. I
The experiment, however,
Dr. Druitt.
effects
for
did.
was not
as to
of
I do
washerwoman's
bill.
It
is
On my
week was
much
becoming
effected in the
There
and of labour
in the household
a child so brought up giving
little or no trouble.
In this case one servant was
clothes,
saved.
We
reckoned,
at
the time,
the
saving
at
at
the
time.
at
the end,
" Clothing
in
Our
Climate.
between 70 or 80 a year.
89
Look
at the difference,
Say that
that
let
what the
and
sec
the
public
amount
difference will
Or put
wealth.
to
the other
it
as regards
way
see
process you
employ to
diminish the strength and the enjoyments of the young
in
the
population.
Mr.
man
There are
doctor at Brighton,
subject,
who some
ingly-
Dr. Leared.
The
earliest of
we
Mr.
illustration
clothes
XJrquhart.
What
and,
after
a fig-leaf
all,
You
it
says
clothing
is
pride;
is
the
is
" Pride
Clothing
a Scotch proverb.
clothing
is
vanity.
false taste
African
savage
You
the
character in the
ask
history
first
of
the
parading
coat.
The
weakness
instance, of his
it
why
can
knows no
finery;
is
Clothing
under
history of
of
man's
frame in the
Modem
90
Ailments of Children.
God
to the
devised,
horses
all
forefathers
fig-
of
Con
cosi,
souo
le
fronde
Does he
Urquhart. Not
Dr. Rogers.
suffer
winter?
Mr.
at all.
He does not suffer from
anything: that child has not had, and will not have,
hooping-cough, measles, or any of those ailments of
modern children.
Mr. Holland. The Nubians, men to whom old age
does not come until they have turned their hundredth
are in like
manner
insensible to cold.
When
exposed
Morbid
sense of Pain.
91
from
all
Exhibition.
of this
planation.
I said
it
testing
pain,
insensibility to
why
the Abys-
synians," &c.
Br.
Drtiitt.
Now, I
want
my
five
weeks
you a question of
to ask
daily life
is
spent in solving
old, that
know
that
clothing,
it
by wrapping
it
warmly
in
and
born infant.
let
and
fleecy woollen
me
Let
put the
infant
young
What
'(
Mr.
Urquhart.
A Turkish Eeis Effendi being
exposed to a variety of questions from an English Ambassador in reference to what he would do in certain
hypothetical
cases,
answered thus
"
It
is
not the
Mr. Urquhart.
It is
It
is
who propose
in the
to leave
Milk Diet.
92
our climate?
as to
assumptions.
Dr. Druitt. You said just now that your boy's food
was milk. What quantity will he consume ?
Mr. Urquhart. About two quarts a day. Medical
men, both here and on the Continent, have earnestly
remonstrated with me on the insufficiency of food. To
live on milk was an idea bewildering to them.
Dr. Druitt. Does he take no solid food ?
Mr. Urquhart. His diet is milk. I have reduced
him from five meals to two meals a day. The change
was an immense relief, nature not having to throw off
He
is
now
in the condition in
means ?
Mr. Urquhart.
Most
certainly.
Case of Rheumatism.
93
As
must
is
prepared in
is
Mr. Holland.
to the purpose
the old-man at
May I
that case
of
Anne's.
Mr. Urquhart.
I was going
first
in,
morning the
first
man coming
lie
out, sup-
had been
He had
was 170
The heat
away
erect.
flat
on the
floor
weight.
The chains
full
iu a single operation.
"Milk
Diet."
Supposititious Cases
94
simply as matters of
fact.
What
the
The other
afterwards sunburnt.
who took
case
is
of a gentleman
The hot
Witt's.
to
air so
speak
How
Medical men
An
duced
climate
one in which
all
The
anything,
* See
note
Rheumatism."
is
at
end,
on
"
science of medicine,
<dad
Medical Tbeaimekt of
of Injury.
95
But
my own
as I understand, to question
if
experience
me
on those
Doubtless, there
is
gory
for
is
in
the only
that a patient
Supposititious Cases in
56
instance)
relieve.
Dr. Druitl.
Mr. Urquhart.
irritates,
to distinguish
between
Ah
there
is,
can afford
little
should happen to be a
man
of genius, or unless I
am
as
it
may seem
and I
will
mentioning
am
97
this,
Mr. Urquhart.
trial.
accepted
it
Seeing that
it
of self-interest.
Dr. hewed,
character.
How,
it
in Turkey, has
Turks.
Dr. Roger*.
think
Mr. Urquhart
be swept away.
it
bath that
exist.
They cannot
An
edifice
about to be constructed in London. The imon which the money was subscribed was the
announcement that Dr. Barter was about to invade England with his "improved" Turkish bath. Let us but
nople
is
pulse
and then
whole people.
In the
first
essentials
bath at
1st,
St.
Anne's I gave
the building
2nd, the
dis-
98
officers in
warm rooms
As
But
In addressing lately an audience
largely composed of medical men and students, with a
this is not the bath.
medical
man
in the chair, in a
introduced into
known under
the
name
with the
is,
that,
remaining
attempt, and content with emyou stop short of the perfect thing
first
pirical innovations,
am
driven
to
to introduce for
know
desire
my countrymen
a benefit of which I
and experience daily the value in my own person,
Non-perspiring Patients.
99
Mr. Urquhart.
Now, then,
nor supposititious.
It
let
me
It will be neither
anonymous
It has been
of a letter from me to the Medical Society.
examined by Mr. Erasmus Wilson, who reported on it,
His letter is here, if you
in the first stage, in writing.
wish to refer to
it.
her
The patient is
name is Stocker
woman between
is housekeeper
and fifty
to Mr. Rolland, and the incident occurred in his bath.
She was suffering from a complication of maladies, some
She was wasting away there was only
of old standing.
Observing the
before her to take to her bed and die.
effect of the bath on others, she had the idea, without
She went in
consulting anyone, of taking it herself.
She experienced unpleasant
at a heat of 170^ to 180.
sensations, but she persevered. She went on, I believe, for
a couple of hours, and was brought out at last with her
body swollen, and in something described as convulsion.
However, satisfied that the bath was her only chance of
life, she repeated the experiment three times, and always
When Mr. Rolland became
with the like results.
acquainted with what had happened, he did not know
forty
she
to think or
to consult me.
2-'.
L861.
ioo
Non-perspiring Patients.
I think
was just
it
as she
day
all
all
down
to Riverside,
and she
right."
You may
an extreme
me much
if
suppose this
trouble.
Not the
Nor was
slightest.
it till
On
housekeeper
is
and
Go
arriving, I
Mr. Rolland's
take the
to
This
is
my
'
fact
'
and
of injury
Dr. Rogers.
to
? Is
Mr.
Mr.
just as well
Mr. Rolland's as in mine ; only it requires to know
how. It is simply gradual heat that is wanted. She
was probably kept a couple of hours at 130, perhaps
she had alternate ablutions of hot and cold water
perhaps she was well soaped and scrubbed perhaps she
was sponged with vinegar perhaps she had a pint of
in
lime-juice to drink.
make her
perspire,
to that end.
Anaesthesia,
What
Urquhart. Oh,
Dr. Rogers.
Witt's.
Mr.
you mentioned
list
is
ioi
Sir
as these
it,
James Clark
I am glad
two cases furnish the whole
!
Clark, and I
owe
to it
made
unknown
to
on the
scientific
that time
modern
science.
in
the
this statement
case
this
other
It
is
Dr. Simpson's
discovery of ancBstheaia.
in fault in
occasion
last
Rolland's had
than Mr.
only, neither
Sir
James
been
Clark nor
is,
cannot so
however, as
much
as
imagine such a
case.
know
Dr. Loured.
I am desirous of knowing
See First Dialogue, p. 3.
if
you have
102
Effect in
how
it
conduces to appetite,
food, so that
it lies
irrita-
able
obstacles
such treatment
to
men
medical
as
calls
to
all
the organs
immediately connected
therewith,
a mass of
inconceivable to
who have
not
cruel operations
those
blood
followed
the
so
Dyspepsia.
103
of the body.
Now,
produces the
effect
of
You can,
therefore, judge
even
if it
The stomach
way. Oxygen being
takes place more rapidly
sufficing, there
There
made
less
is
also
waste
to
much
good.
of our food
is
required.
am
satisfied
that
the
amount of food
required.
My servants
have given up
ignored by medical
men
the temperature of
the diseased
may add,
Relief in Dyspepsia.
104
Now,
is
Not
perspiring power.
By
all,
you maintain
Why
a day.
manner
and
Little
for
week that
When
It
man
is
is
a great
ill, it is
effort
his
first
He must be in two
In that period of relief afforded
from the internal pressure of blood and consequent
heat, the vessels can regain their contractility against
to be
the
inevitable recurrence
But
this
malady in
its
all
the
other organs.
to
the
face, is
several
and separate
105
alle-
viated.
avail the
this disorder, if
The
Up
Sup
Having
indulged
at five,
bed at nine."
the
weak man
patient, "
without
themselves
maxim
reserve, they
and no longer
You must
siderations for
by qualifying himself
ailments which afflict
to
species
him
to bear
up against
is
now
resolved to rectify.
Digestion
repeat
it
is
than
is
its difficulty
required.
You must
food
that
you
supports you
have to
106
Alternations of
I wish I could parade before you the
My
to this abstinence.
"Why
Were
I a doctor, I
In
ancient
Persians,
subjecting
and
the
them
cold, to
"warm
times,
discipline
to privations:
clothing,"
thirst.
Now
it
I have
is
at least,
is
it is
is
This
is
symptom not
common
peculiar
to those disorders
The
it
does
hold?
That
irritation
is
Will
to say, suppose
we have an
external
Mr.
Urquhart.
tion, abrasion,
In
all
One
107
is immediate.
The exposure of an abraded surface is
supposed to be injurious, in consequence of the action of
the air.
You go into the bath with the part exposed
:
you
suffer
you are
re-
I have as
my
was, with
and by
W.
Mr.
friend
wound
Fergusson's concurrence,
down
here.
The change in
was
in four-and-twenty hours
wonderful.
recent French
has advised
writer
Mr. Urquhart.
as
Well, I give
burning-hot air:
that
is
a partial
means
in
the
is
a very fool-
groping only.
If he used
The concomi-
for-
dyspepsia
who
fact, I differ
from you
Strengthening Effect
108
Many
there.
my
experience
Mr. Urquhart.
from
dyspepsia.
Mr. Urquhart.
The
Laplanders
Can you
digest
You have
not be passed.
another
race a being
He
another manner.
in
dyspepsia
ing excursions
suffer
frequently afterwards.
book of
travels.
the Beagle
;"
matter who.
The
less
General Therapeutics,"
man
1863.
has
of One
Meal
a Day.
109
Mr.
Urquliart.
all this.
prevented
tion
me from
and
so I
my
to
and
fell
the Mussulman
fast of the
with that form of dyspepsia called heartburn. It disappeared, not that I noted the change at the time, under
that practice.
Returning
to
all
as mentioned
by Abul Fazel.
Ackbar
Talley-
one meal.
hours
is
made
plain
by the
necessity of filing
it
on
two meals a
its
phosphates down
its rivers. *
no
Perspiration
dition of
the
soil
permanency must be
1st,
the restoration
to
and then
and
three
to
fall;
and
so
will they
the
second.
command by
let
is
me
comparatively small
the
it
corresponds with
its
want now
to
come
to
what
to
is
Dr. Druitt.
perspiration.
as
is
to
at
the
?
fanciful
is
is
limit to the
at
this temperature
cold as soon as
Dr. Druitt.
have
Mr. Urquhart. It would be better brought out by
question and answer than by mere statement.
Dr. Druitt. What amount do you believe a man
to tell
us about perspiration.
putant."
soil.
and Disease.
ought
to lose
from
not of water
1 1
weight of
solid
matter
refer
Dr. Thudichum.
When
you
first
stated to
me
the
you described
the skin,
the
skin,"
the effort
or,
as Hippocrates
or that
falls
cKseate
puts
011/1/
You may
short.
it,
It
would seem,
discharge
by
"purgation by
manifiuta iiaelf
when
with
the
refuses
to
On going
perspire.
faculty of perspiration
is
into
the bath,
the
time forces
it
out.
This
is
But heat
what the physician dimly
1 1
whether
it
whether disease
the skin,
beyond
is
to inquire into
This
is
true
is
me
and
remedy.
with
disease,
is
less,
recoverable
Then the
by the
application of
disease is subdued.
If phy-
least they
They seek
to obtain
external heat.
I care
am in possession of the
sicians
Nor do
to inquire into.
since I
it,
by
renders
administered
specifics
it
the
internally.
This
first
so
only
many
of the powers
of nature, by
man
said, "
is
saved
when he
perspires."
man
In
my
it
down.
when
raised sufficiently
nj
Perspiration.
let
tion.
Mr. Urquhart.
lost in
to
In
all
isi
other emunctions
is
ilutely destroy us
depends our
selves
forth
by the lungs
muscles;
it
is
am
itself.
is
in reference
we
Our
this
al
First as to perspiration
in
health.
"What comes
under the control of involuntary
perfected
life,
passes
no
ratio established
between
wise escaping.
provide.
for this
equally necessary,
H4
Perspiration
skin
metaphysical.
Dr. Thudichum. You
dis-
tinction is
as
much from
That
is
a point
observed. It
is
which no
scientific
man
has hitherto
to
at
in every direction.
Dr.
What
amount of
perspiration can he
comfort
at 180 or 190,
higher temperatures.*
Dr.
What
will that
amount
to,
as regards the
twenty hours
But
Committed
to
Man's Care.
115
a this estimate
vital portions
exchanging dirty
Dr.
So, then,
it
That
as it may be considered.
If
you, as a medical man, proposed to purify entirely the
Mr. Urquhart.
is
do
so
effected
If there are no more questions, I should wish to conclude by one further consideration. I become thirsty in
it is
so
is at
once available.
managed that it
We
passes
suppose
not the
case.
and the
circulation.
In
my
first
and circumscribed.
For instance, in point of cleansing, I imagined that if
I was then in total
I perspired, I had a clean skin.
darkness as to the whole history before us, Xow I
I looked
at
perspiration as
local
Perspiration
1 1
know
is
the blood
is
itself,
globules.
not a secretion,
it is
When,
single condensation.
it
the
the kidneys.
losing anything.
fear of
now
say,
that no ratio
I interposed the
moment
body, at the
when
these
it
is
set free
from
its
matter
The
organs,
At that moment
down drops into
accompanies
the
is this,
the
that
outgoing
all
part.
by the
spiracles
blood
7;
;
Committed
Man's Care.
to
Each
cleansed.
particle of blood
is,
so to say, wasted.
discovery of
into
this
heat as
a mode of
may
cure.
treat
put
it
as a specific
it
Wherever there
there
is
Therefore,
when
am
certain of cure
I gel a
he has
then?
The
itself
of
making use of
is
do
Instead
its
to
We
drawn
its
the
corrupted state
Perspiration
1 1
of it."
evokes
it
its
healthy
the
effects
first,
state.
The discharge
and
the
called
heat which
the
I have used
my
For
sense.
restore
it,
bowls
out of the
life
contents, renovate
man and
put
it,
You
every particle.
it
into
"How
its
carefully preserving
you apply a
blister,
me in in time!" Or,
man of a portion of
his serum.
We
know very
to arterial."
Dr. Thudichum.
lacious
Mr.
JJrquhart.
Watson's
late
fal-
work.
fal-
a Disease."
Washes
the Blood.
1
1
Dr. Thudichnm.
There
make a remark.
perhaps,
is
It
is
this
whereas, on the
up the
dilution,
of
difficulties in the
way
by the
Doubtless,
faculty.
medical
men who
are the
is
illusion
as
I, least
to
the
of professional distinction.
all disease.
it
first to
accept
it
a large field
This
The medical
20
Perspiration.
man
that
called
is
it is
upon
The
possible for
which
forced
is
him
to conceive
on the same
made
the discovery
upon them.
shall continue to
do
my
the
render
it
it is
I have done
best, to
suffering of
level as himself.*
my
object
is
my
belonging
In the
fellow- creatures.
to
their
and
first
My
it.
it
is
the
case, it is in
of
body,
issue
impossible for
them
good of
an
best,
to
make
this
discovery
by
striving to
their
own
of
it
his
own physician.
* About this time a fierce war was waged against the Bath by the
medical journals. In replying to one of these, Dr. Thudichum wrote
as follows
" The public in this matter is far in advance of the medical profession.
Our duty, as doctors of the healing art, simply is, to make ourselves acquainted
the
The Bath
Let me endeavour
bath
to
of Riverside.
Frigidarium
wo
We
all
early bathers
122
we
we
'the
leave
enter.
bright
Bath
early winter
it is
favoured ornament
wooded
the
herds and
is still
flocks,
hill,
At our
bath.
side
is
a dureta,
over-against us a
a soft-cushioned divan
a nargille
in
mid
is
Shades
Shade
of
ancient descent,
who
through festoons of
bath.
glistens in the
makes mimic
plunging
A door opens
glass
his
revel.
we
enter
second door
we
by the
;
side of the
immense
we
barrier of
Then a
are greeted
;;
of Riverside.
with a delightful atmosphere
no place of
balmy,
terrestrial
warm
experience
tells
2j
us that
descend two
aether but
one
steps,
to find soft
our
Two
footfall.
form
steps more,
plat-
from side
To our
scarlet
right
wo
is
hangings
Laconicum
We
hall,
to side the
it is
tent
On
its
we
customary temperature
the
left
At a
240 or 250.
is
another divan,
of being so if required.
being farther from the furnace, but still over the meridian of the Hypocaust, it was less hot than the enclosed
" If you would
its common temperature is 170.
tent
:
that plug."
enough
to
saw a
reach by
The Bath
I2 4
drew
it,
you
but in a
air,
of lazy indolence.
obedience,
or, if
reward
Heavens
what a
what Sybaritic contrivance
delicious
round
will,
gush
here ?
modest
my
Roman
shoulder
him
the
Although the
gnonette
I looked
peering over
of
What
ambrosial air
of
is
spirit
remained to enable
my
last
fancy to judge
month
how
delicious
or two earlier.
This
there
my
that ventilation
is
and
Still costly
tread.
steps),
is
is
still
lower (about
everywhere fresh
perfect,
it
is
my
host leads
me
to a small recess
on the
side corre-
A curtain is with-
floor,
is
of Riverside.
at one
I2f
also, is
The bottom,
the marble slab slopes downwards to
drain.
Latrina
the
first
sacred
precincts
is
made to
of the Apodyterium,
he
pass through
left his
he undid the
him
his
bath.
purity
away
ho must
up
yield
he
may
range at will
We
seat ourselves
the Lavaterina
at the
warm water
surface,
t/nziil
we complete
edge of
the
Basin after
and we
feet in depth,
steps.
In this
The Bath
16
from winch
much may be obtained as may beis pumped up from the river, and
as
This water
required.
filtered before it is
made
is
and
is
it,
like the
bather,
In
it
is
permitted to
summer
cooled
down with
ice
when he
issues
Having
received
Lavaterina, I
soft,
my
commenced a
the warm, the perfumed, the hot, the cool, the cold
little
Antinous,
who
one while crept into the fiery tent, and another while
disported himself like a
I then took
my
evident
place in
inconvenience.
It was now approaching the hour of breakfast, and
however disinclined I might be to leave the warm
world in which I had spent more than an hour, I was
of Riverside.
127
it
this while
pores,
to experience
under the
little
sensation.
I crouched
tap, while
jets that
remember
remember
to quit
the region of
fire,
Throwing myself on
The Bath
128
hour was spent in suggestive and instructive conversation, and then " to breakfast with what appetite we
may."
Speaking
Need
I say more
This
is
my memory
man.
of the delicious
bath at Riverside.
My
me
away
to the
mode
of
mode
ticularly to the
of
its
my
we
we draw
food from
manner
of
its
fail to
I was struck
indigenous.
other countries,
this
properties altogether.
It
is
to
miserably neglected.
would be
if this
man
should
be so
happier man's
state
himself
How much
even the
life
of
man
be prolonged
who
and sorrowing
starved,
many
because the
of Riverside.
modern
science
nourishment
129
to offer
mutton
gruel.
who have
am
saying
so
is
narrowly escaped
is
indeed miraculous
this
Bath.
Ertjulfltions.
Tho two
baths
at
and a polite
must be
therefore, must seek to learn from
practice of a cleanly
observed.
Visitors,
the attendants
how
to conduct themselves.
furniture, or
divss,
which
Everything is polluted
has undergone purification.
That is clean
tilth.
with
which has been in contact
had pure
has
which, after having been washed clean,
water poured over
it.
The Bath
130
that
is,
matting, marble,
persons
streets,
or walk.
sit
In the East, the foot being always clean, the distincand clean is marked by the shoe or the
Until the same result is obtained here, it is
bare foot.
necessary to assume that the foot is clean, although it
tion of dirty
be not
so.
do to say "
to
Oh
announce
to
will not
has
When
and he
it
or he has, himself, to
polluted
back
it
a vessel of water
told
is
is
by means of
it
to
wash
clean water,
a limb clean, he
the contrary.
In
like
and how
to
all things, to
of Riverside.
to sit
131
for his
it
know
being
polite,
why, during
cannot bo observant.*
so
many
This
is
the cause
danger of
cleanly,
it
its falling
is
the
into desuetude.
becomes necessary
to
Fonbhmque,
p. 20.
The Bath
of the Finns.
p. 296.
Almost
of bathing.
all
It
have a small house built on purpose for a bath.
consists of only one small chamber, in the innermost
heated by
fire till
number
On
these stones,
In
is
number
and,
it
of persons
is,
of course,
the hottest.
least
the
appearance
women
for,
are not a
little
startled
at his
which discovers
at once to the
view their
situa-
in
1807.
The Bath of
remain,
as there
any
if
the Finns.
133
is
light but
wood
of which
it is
constructed.
this
to
go in and join
my
senses,
when
and amuse
themselves for the space of half an hour, in the same
chamber, heated to the 70th or 75th degree of Celsius.
The thermometer, in contact with those vapours, became
I found that those people remain together,
it
in
my
hands.
The Finlanders,
all
by
Celsius.
ij4
They
come out, still naked, and conany one near them, in the open
happen to pass hy while the peasants
will sometimes
If travellers
air.
of any hamlet or
little
shivering
sits
There
is
which man
of habit.
by a
being
trifling
you
that
By
as
much
as
by
rest
tell
and
sleep.
is
recruited
men easily
Waste of Fuel
in
England.
Note
to
page 64.
fuel,
has engendered
it,
as she
among
which
Nor
is it
we might
attain to health
itself.
from waste-
Warmth,
disease
heat
is
its cure.
The open
is
the hot-bed of
fire-place
which
to curative means.
flued,
Waste of Fuel
36
I
Hammam
what
is
expenditure at the
Were
Hammam is three
shillings
!*
London and
to be asked
it
whom God
Some
of
up.
it
said
is
not
in England.
137
is effected,
but
how long
which yield
will
coal of a
quantity and at a price to enable this country to maintain her present supremacy in manufacturing industry ?
So
far
this
as
particular
district is concerned,
it
is
working.
as
it is
now
any
com-
The rest
by far
many
instances constitutes
the
common furnaces is
is
chimney.
is
allowed to escape
The combustion
also in
powdered
annum
of the entire
population
so that
Waste of Fuel
38
if
in
effect
England.
with the insignificant
pound of
consumed
an ordinary kitchen
tire, he
enormous waste which
takes place by the common method of burning coal for
coal
in
culinary purposes.
too
much
trust,
it
so,
but, I
being
rectified
by attention
to scientific principles,
may
whom
p. 88.)
charming.
tion of
all
He
who
very striking;
see him.
it is
The
It
is
may
140
window.
During the progress of the experiment, he has cut three teeth
without manifesting any of the disagreeable symptoms usual to
children in that condition. He appears to be quite insensible
Occasionally he has an ugly fall, but not a sound
to pain.
escapes from his lips. His manners, demeanour, and general
behaviour are equally striking. His mode of saluting a person
is to take the hand in a graceful manner and kiss it.
He is
under the complete control of his father, and is perfectly quiet
during meals, and also whenever he is told to be so. He goes
about all day, amusing and occupying himself in a quiet way.
No one accustomed to children would know there was a child
in the house.
So incredible are these results, that some of the
residents at St. Anne's regard the whole matter with mingled
Those who have
feelings of horror, amazement, and wonder.
made a careful observation for themselves, and prefer the
evidence of their eyes rather than their ears, see nothing but
to admire and respect. No doubt, some of them would even
go so far as to repeat the experiment on their own children,
were it not for the fear of that terrible question, " what will
Mrs. Grundy say P"
Day.
under the
is
at the entrance
by
food, as evinced
food.
it
by
loss of appetite
case
Dyspepsia Treated by
142
digestion
Whatever I could
failed.
Every
When
the pain
by a small dose
it
first
manifested
But
of alkali.
was relieved
day went by and
itself it
as each
had
to be increased.
porary.
Likewise the
effect
At night
this
weather, I recovered a
cation, or
little, five
even a passing,
if
relief
to the
My
only
amount
of
my
stomach
if possible,
itself to
not
be injured.
143
I therefore gave
it.
it
up
however, afford
did,
moment
me
for
It
and
to it I
at one
tionable
myself to
total ubstinence
weeks together.
medical treatment, and
time meat,
for
in
colchicum.
That
is
to say, I
was treated
for sub-acute
So
and the
Thus
ber,
up
it
was that
at the
my mind
to every reasoning,
my own
resources, I
made
by
ice
taken internally
swallowed the
ice
crushed and
The
effect
Alb.
was instantaneous.
and
in a quarter of
I
was on the
an hour.
first
occa-
Dyspepsia Treated by
144
sion for
a trace of pain
" That
is
As
your
to maintain
On
It
is
appetite grows
resolve.
:
Do
yield only
hunger."
am now
after this
in the fourth
145
symptom
human stomach
way
to
is
to eat little
say,
dyspepsia
is
It
is
the
'
They
will
from their
meal.''
46
Dyspepsia 'Treated by
The
case
and
either
With regard
of the one
effect
meal a day
was the
first
first
itself.
I have gradually
now
got back
to the
quarter exactly
my
my
greatest sufferings
by
have
resulted
these repeated
still
xtomach something
to
do."
147
During
this
covery which
for
human
may
suffering.
it
as "
motion
A HODS OF CUKE."
I had been several days at Cowes, on shore, and suffering very severely. I was then several days afloat, but
at anchor immediately opposite the window of the
Gloucester Hotel where I had endured so much p iin,
but there days and night enjoying complete immunity.
AS
Had
now
at least felt to be
night,
when
also
my
pains returned
that
on nights
is,
The
no motion.
rationale being evident for medical
conncxion
effect of
motion on the
latter, I will
it
in thr
follows that
the
men
little
cot,
sufficed)
caused to
Dyspepsia Treated by
148
sickness
is
known
It is well
counteracted by exercise.
my
stomach
itself,
would,
if
and most
delicate operation.
a hair trigger.
boy taking a
pistol
until at length
will reach
if at
is
it.
emitted
The
it.
therefore an electrical
It
may
be compared
is
it flies
No
off at half-cock.
it,
medicine
indeed, reach
The bath
to
like a
it,
will
mental
effort
will
in
The
to it a
will act
discoverer of a cape
name.
covered as promontories.
of Dr. Bright
cure,
is
who
We
his
name.
Had
it,
Having discovered
right of giving
as the
it
khma, or flow of
name
gastric juice,
name
is
shall be
disease.
In dyspepsia, food
have the
that
This malady
149
is
is
in Pepto-
The
treatment, however,
is
It
may
toms here
described.
is
pain relieved by
alkali.
is
or the food, he
how
is
it
is
uncertain.
that the
removed by
alkali,
the meantime ?
If this were
all,
however,
malady
in
my
began in this common form, it afterwards transformed itself into another, and that form one to which
Dr. Watson's theory does not apply. I think I may then
case
is
fortunately as rare as
it is
It
150
the standard
observa-
Budd
reflex process
secretion of tears.
by pungent vapours
acting
upon the
nostrils, or
by
certain feel-
He
Budd
The
the
rheumatism
case of
is
Turkish bath
not peculiar,
is
no more.
only given
it is
as an example.
"
letting,
and other
Some
trary, even in the present day, put their trust in bark.
give large doses of calomel in the outset of the disease, such a
half a scruple or a scruple, without or with a grain of opium
daily, or oftener, with purgatives perhaps
till
the urgent
and
in this
But I
I have seen the disease apparently out short.
have also known many instances in which the disease was painful and protracted, and obstinate, although this practice was
manner
fairly
prosecuted.
Some
physicians give
Medical 'Treatment
152
large and repeated doses of eoniura and some attempt the cure
of acute rheumatism by sweating the patient by means of
guaiacum, and similar stimulant medicines, and a profusion of
;
bed clothes."
"
We
may by leeches,
circulating blood,
it
serious
location."
now adopt
Formerly it wasthefashion
;'
from
use, the
of Rheumatism.
153
may
together, or with
more
The
effect of "
taught everything,
clothing," which
the morbid
is lost,
is
Rheumatism
symptom
is
dance
it is
an inert
have
warm
human body
consumption, cancer, or
a
to
merely
skin.
vol.
ii.,
pp.
One Meal
Day
Milk Diet.
(See p. 93.)
in,
also, that
the two
From
2nd.
From
the three to a
1st.
From
greater number.
I hold,
human
to that
and
3rd.
The
first
great dis-
Cicero remarks,
it
to
Milk Diet.
155
Romans.*
for the
The continent
close of the
wars.
It
is
in-
knew no
of Europe
great
Roman
the
The
commenced
among
England only
in
has advanced
it
and druggists of the United States surpass in proportion those of England, as much as those of England do
those of the Continent.
Having met
on milk
impossible for a
or to subsist at
being
man
all
constantly
to do his
told
work on a
on a single meal,
if
that
it
is
single meal,
consisting only
March
Pear
Sib,
About
9th, 1864.
De Quiney on
"
The
Komans."
$6
He
told
me
who
(frijoles)
light supper.
The workmen
consists of beef
1 am, &c,
33,
Westbourne
Villas,
W.
My
Deab
Sib,-
called Tapasees,
There
who
are
live in the
Hindu hermits
or penitents
in
almost
Nepaul
to
there.
At Cashmere,
Cape Comorin.
now
living,
Milk Diet.
present day, and
157
it is
that
by no one save on
this condition.
is
As
The
phenomena
in
may
in the interval a
man
of head arise.
That
it is
possible
modern and
even a
important of
condition of
man
It is a
the permanent
to
Read
The
subject to
your attention
art,
institution,
1862.
it
neither a social
is
it is
neither a
it is
economy of food
it
the body.
for it
It is
is
others,
habit.
unknown
it
is,
This habit, by
from
immunity
longer term of
life,
a greater contentment in
life,
more
flRTER
DEL
left
blank
WA CARTER DEL T
left
blank
159
no invention.
is
It is as old as the
race.
every grade of
human
culture, or
it
human
has belonged to
human
destitution.
inhabitants
it
human
more
difficult
may
Ileligions
but the
insurmountable
We
difficulties.
calm and
strange as
the
tirst
It is
but
show that
no longer
it
is
at the point
when, speaking as
Wo
are
in the air, it
The
said, such and such is a Turkish bath.
and danger now proceed from the impressions
has to be
obstacle
Art of Constructing
160
it
can
now be
Do
not imagine
people, or the
Hammam
of the other."
in every enterprise
destined to consecrate.
which he
Time,
if
put to
is
profitable
is
failure.
profit,
means
perfection.
are
is
number
penalties attached to
moment
of a public
conviction.
judgment adapting
But it is by the
itself to
effort
the
new
When
qualified itself to
admit a great
to
discard the
judgment
admit and
will
have
to accept
conception.
may meet
a Turkish Bath.
in this place, the inducement
is
161
The order in which the spheres revolve, the processes by which the various arts of life are carried on, how
some man has added an additional dose of sand to bricks,
ledge.
effected.
is
The knowledge
quired
how
is,
man may do
to be Re-
to others.
experience,
can
state,
and
in this I
am
confirmed by
Nor
so
his
man may do
becomes a part of
only whal a
is it
minded,
own by
his desire to
opportunity of effecting
promote
maoh
it,
and hen-
at little cost.
is
The
an
effect
that
in
the
do not mean
number
them than
that
promoting
this habit
may
contribute
therefore to the
more
among
to
the
amount of
M
Art of Constructing
62
The
first
had
Among
more
so
We
is
none
have had
and luxury.
You
are
now assembled
to
Romans
and domestic
life
of philosophic tendencies.
of
it.
it
tions. I
My
first
Greece knows
it
accumulation of
acquaintance with
no longer.
the imagination of
engaged
in its
it was in Greece.
That polished Greece that
man
where
To-day, at
the
a Turkish Bath.
163
old
usages maintained
Dardanelles.
prevent
What
in the East.
its loss
A series
of articles in the
first
its
ruins of the
Romans
We
it
classical litera-
Dead knowledge
You
worth having,
is
living thing.
it
you the
no more
Even
in
;
familiar
it
is
the
To a far
exceptional which alone claims attention.
greater degree the rule holds in formal composition.
Notwithstanding
among
the
habits
of
literary
it
description
impossible to
It
is
Art of Constructing
164
we should be absolutely
origin among them of the
and nearly
bath,
same
in the
condition as to the original process, and the modifications in successive ages of the operation itself.
make
it
Each man
A man
is,
Rome
why
That word
bath."
And
It
says,
better
moderation of
irritates
"Am I
to be
than others
his
constrain a man,
is
self-esteem.
when
?
The
Turks have preserved the bath from ancient times
they have also the habits and manners belonging to it
and, therefore, when you say " Turkish bath," you
confess that you have to go to the Turks for it.
We
AVhen
my
attention was
first
turned to the
subject,
and
now
begin.
With
me on
noting and
I will then
a Turkish Bath.
165
made towards
the investigation of
the action of heat, whence has arisen the present application of the bath to the cure of diseases, and then I
shall indicate the
new
opened in regard
field
to science,
caloric.
The
appli-
method of
cleanliness
is
and may
easily
The
bath,
when
first
seen
No
filthiest of
mortals
they
by maxima
sooner did they see the bath than they adopted it;
made
it
every settlement.
excess, carrying
had no
fallacious
to their
Art of Constructing
66
great hall,
which
is
fourth, of the
soaping.
is
The
first
scene
hall,
acted
is
hall.
is
The time
repeated once
a week.
On
you
covered with a
hundred
feet in height.
may
This
is
Romans.
Romans
"sea"
of
a fountain plays
and by
it is
pipes, or nargilles.
about three
basin, the
You
feet.
couch to undress
placed the
stall to
is
supply
coffee,
a platform raised
in
the
soft
laundry or washhouse.
One
is
a Turkish Bath.
167
turban
the second
so as to
is
The
There
is
decenoy
strictest
is
is
remain in Europe, or
to
known
a reason
come
to
for
instances of
refusing to
it.
enters
is
very
is
little
light
is
admitted
Art of Constructing
68
now bring
this
in
apartment
perspiration
is
natural .and
gentle
the
and pipe
coffee
manipulation
is
and,
required and
is
addition,
in
flow of
to
shampooing
the sombre air of the apartment calms
the senses, and shuts out the external world.*
During the subsequent part of the operation, you are
the bath
either too busy or too abstracted for society
sociable,
and
this
is
portion
of it so
a
is essentially
appropriated this is the time and place where a
;
Whilst
so engaged, a
boy kneels
command
swimming
in
warm
Roman
your
feet
and chafes
By
strange contrivances.
at
by another, the
"
Multus ubique
Stat.
1. i.
See
This excess of light in a bath savours of indecency.
Sueton., Apoll. lib. if, epist. 2. It was not the early practice of
Rome, nor certainly of those from whom the Romans took the
bath. " Our ancestors," says Seneca, " did not believe a bath
to be
warm
unless
it
was obscure."
Mart.
i.
60.
"
tene-
a Turkish Bath.
169
neka'es of
passed
his
satisfied that
your skin
is
linen,
in a proper state.
and
He
is
then
region
is
adytum,
a spaco such
filled
as the centre
dome
of a cathedral,
stars of stained
spectre-like
rays, which,
.struggle
to
The
round the
loins,
all
of
and
was equiva-
Art of Constructing
170
appearing to
He
on a perch.
a jerk,
its place
follows
anatomical
times
and
chest,
;
down
slips
and
the ribs
lastly,
of
air
all
will be effected
by
f " Percurrit
which
agili
Galen,
Manumque doctum
spargit
omnibus membris.''
Mart. iii.
82.
a Turkish Bath.
171
Round
down
to him,
" Et
summum
v. 422.
sin of Constructing
172
macaroni.
will accumulate in
chalk
used.
it,
and had
it
driedit
size of the
is
fist.
like a ball of
4th Act.
By
Hitherto
The strigil was used after bathing, to remove the perspiraThe hollow part was to hold oil to soften the skin, or to
off."
Dennis,
vol.
ii.
p. 426.
tree
a Turkish Bath.
17J
You
rise,
to the
shoulder cloth
over
it
is
is
taken
off,
You
your
first
feet are
rupted view of
all
This
themselves.
may
be by
The
is
You drop
high step.
matting a towel
The couch
is
is
is
only one
is
weight
conducted to
M*
As you
spread out;
rest
on
it
the
it
every tendon,
"
On
:'l
<l<-s
le
dhanne
est
D'Olisson,
t.
vii.
]>.
l!3.
aaoore
augmenU
un eafeexquis."
-Art of Constructing
174
every muscle
relaxed
is
to the skeleton
there
it
were,
is
appears to be suspended.
re-
coffee is
or,
if
so disposed,
for a
mouthful
bath, this
The
the time.
is
hall
is
it,
and
chisel
any
nails of the
hands
callosities
rubbed down
changed.*
The
feet.
These operations
feet are
is
twice
1.
x. o. 10,) says,
of the servants throw over him a towel, and being placed upon
a couch, let him be wiped with sponges, and then with soft
How completely this is the Turkish plan, one
napkins."
Explanation
familiar with the bath only will understand.
would be
tedious.
t If
you
a Turkish Bath.
175-
the
first stage.
The touch
as velvet.
of the skin
is
electric.
and soft
Buffon
first
touch of himself.
It is the descrip-
tion of the
to
its
member.
Each
But
The
visions
fade, the
of your feet are chafed, and you wake up gently, and with an
agreeable sensation. This luxury is not confined to those who
liy
same
\\
iic.
the street-porter
so
awakened
service.
The
by
his
happiness or adversity.
Art of Constructing
176
is
according to the
the
tariff
"I
feel as if I
Paying your
moon."
of your deserts, you walk
pence
forth a
king.
writer in
" Strange as it
" Library
the
may
of
men
has tried
When
itself
it
speaks with
all is
much
every limb
is
light
and
and
is
free as
delight-
civilities
then proffered.
He
which appear to have been national. Sir G. Wilkinson, in his work on Thebes, cites them at length, and this is all
that he deems it requisite to tell the strangers who arrive in
Egypt on this subject.
sufferings,
a Turkish Bath.
How
can
177
it
What
common
put into a
stock
the box
is
is
made
pound or more
will give a
is
opened once a
They pay
the
person of distinction
common
price that, at
pence
to
threepence.
for
women
down
three farthings.
a few parahs to
to
established,
it
was
felt to
nothing. "
fuisset, sine
poor
man
will
Art of Constructing
178
is
no bath linen.
pot,
At once
are used.
There
mences.
to rub his
is
hands
the
is
an oven, and a
is
floor
burning hot
so boards
You
in.
He
legs.
his feet,
by which he
and rubbing,
his
way
directions.
make even a
this way the
and stretching
After rubbing in
at the
Then
feet,
thrice
under the
calf,
a rough brush, for his shaved head has the grain down-
wards.
heel.
of Demetrius Poliorcetes
lid in the
Greek Thermai.
a Turkish Bath.
*79
so
much
rather no profit.
The
details of these
it is
little
or
wonderful struc-
ill-assorted details, as
describe
Romans
The
plained.
discrepancies
apoili/lrriiim is
and
differences
ex-
comes the sweating apartment, *ul>There two (natations arc performed, shampooing, and the clearing off
The Romans had in the tepidoritim
of tho epidermis.
hall;
after this
operations, the
name
of
traetator;
the others,
who used
the
stricil.
The appearance
of the strigil in no
way
alters
when
fire
Art of Constructing
80
in,
within observation.
doubtless,
been
Many
originally
The
Greek.
change
compensated
in
by
of the outer room, into which the Turks
come, and
is
The hot-water
is
for*
labmm and
reservoirs, the
When
among
Turks,
which
is
is
they
left
the
below,
a cock.
exactly that
of the
Romans
The
oil
or ointments
daily
* " On entering, they remain in the hot air, after which they
immerse themselves in hot water, then they go into cold water,
and then wipe off the sweat. Those who do not go from the
sudatory at once into cold water burst out, on returning to the
dressing room, into a second sweat, which at first is immoderate,
and then ceases, and leaves them chilly." Galen, " Method.
Med."
1.
x. c. 2.
a Turkish Bath.
the bath naked
costume
the
promiscuously
181
Romans allowed
from excesses,
it
which, to a people of
less discrimination,
appeared to constitute
its essential
entailed as
its
might have
character, or to be
necessary consequences.
Our
studies
and
These
first
evil,
rest of their
universally prevails.
thev shave
it.
a bald pate.
body
it
often, except
with
oil
almost
reverse
Washing
the head
is
in
no case prejudicial.
if
The men of
Art of Constructing
82
of that of the
women ?
fur of animals,
made
is
The hair
to bear rain
You
cover
it
to
The
up.
to air
washed
at the bath.
It
is first
They are very particular about soap, and use none but
that made of olive oil.
The Castile Soap, which in this
country
is
This
is
After
twice repeated.
This
left to
imbibe
is
all
the soap, washed off with bowls of hot water, and leaves.
it.
From
time to
up
this state
When
In
the napkin.
is
if
and
if
grey, red.
The bath
hair,
and dancing
which excludes
which accompany
it,
in an atmosphere
not, like
a Turkish Bath.
who
183
ones,
Apuleius.
from
all
ambiguity.
the papyrus.
It
is
which a cast
is
K.iiTo\i]KvOos,
was equivalent
signifies
to " I
a poor man.
am my own
butler."
'Zfiavrov BaXawvo-w,
"
Art of Constructing
84
Roman
Roman
citizen
it
had
to
Rome was
state.
"Is
may
shampooer, or
me some
it
ought
me
questions which
How
not to be tried ?
number
sufficient
One
for the
of the shampooers
At
that rate, would not 6d. per person be about the charge
poorest,
cases ?
My
"
answer
respecting the
is
follows:
as
strigil,
As
to
your question
it
is
the
him.
for
professional
month
man, he
is
also every
is
man.
was
after
pressed themselves
much
down
ance that
man
to the coarseness
a Turkish Bath.
which
we read
so pervades us that
185
up
to us
by
I have
Ba\i/(v6ut, or
expression,
a-eavrov
in
it
" independence."
I once
went
to the bath
the
first
with
Ahmed
man
in the empire.
Pasha, then
us.
Six
service.
of all
it
in
its
and practising
operations the
it.
think
it
Nor do I
more
efficacious
scraping
it
off
as
well
with the
as
is
agreeable process,
a far
than
strigil.
it
may
A Turk
be supposed,
It is true every
Turk,
Art of Constructing
86
and ewers
baths, &c.
in bedrooms,
a great quantity.
and
completely
it
to
off.
rub with
handful
it,
and a
The fountains
By the
are
mosques,
fifty
persons
What
fill
a difference
it
maybe
makes
in domestic comfort to
three times the length, placed on a stand about four feet high,
may be
is
small.
the water
It runs for
slippers.
in preference to the
a Turkish Bath.
187
It
would but
faintly describe
condition
of
society.
Neither do
was, "
What
shall
my impressions
from a refined
rude
to a
we know how
One of the
do in sickness
I'
first
"
to
thoughts
All Europe's
make up
Tho European
appearance
face,
to the air
neatness.
He
the elbow, feet, face, and neck, five times a day in cold wter,
without soap. The wadhan of the Jew is only throe times, and
The priests washed feet and
does not extend to the feet.
hands.
Art of Constructing
88
He
the other
they
various ranks
know one
requires
another
and
all
Europeans,
the Pasha,
he
is
the intercourse of
sustains a style
is
and
de-
as courtly as that of
What must
is
The
"Augustus in all
his window nor a
his splendour
Rome were
the beggar in
had neither
The
glass for
slave
and
monarch knows.
an impression that the bath is weakening.
We' can test this in three ways its effects on those
debilitated by disease, on those exhausted by fatigue,
luxuries which no European
There
is
waking
state,
sleep.
2.
successive days
we never know
fatigue
such as
a Turkish Bath.
back
the
189
relief.
the extent
rest,
ninety- four
of
know by
experience
its
hours, without
effects in the
taking
extremest
cases.
He
sleep.
it,
enters as
as if
he had
if
and
This
is
much
not to be
The Tartar
sits
is
of an extraordinary
selects the
feet
himself up
most powerful man)
pummels
back and
oil
his
face, aided
elastic as a sinew,
You
will sec a
and
light as a feather.
hammal
(porter), a
man
living only on
Art of Constructing
90
age
at eight years of
the duties
The
best
shampooer
man whose
if
were debilitating.
the bath
me
as ninety,
might
undergo
great
less
and
also
remarkably
Unlike the
fatigue,
are
healthy.
The Romans
Arabs,
into
it
who
daily.
time of Nero,
until, in the
it
it
manner of
of the patrician, as
it
excessive.
disqualified
did debilitate
antidote to their
became
the bath, if
raised,
Their
to be conducive
them
for using
it
served, therefore, as an
life,
Tartar.
Life
is
result in,
fluids
the muscles
Thus, shampooing
for gene-
human
a Turkish Bath.
191
and strength
are
evidences
all
the
of
influence
of
Who
pains,
relief
receive a blow,
will
kill
the
You
much
with as
is
is
Medio*.
Where
human
practised,
removed, indiges-
>V:r.,
Here
medicines.
Wherever
it
is
the
can be employed,
its
of our
control
to the old.
is
to be
it
mach
the
common
practice of
whole frame
which ought
man,
Where
it
must be of the
the practice
upon
if
We have
patient.
i>
familiar,
it is
all occasions.
among
latter present
The
Even
offers a solace
tribes,
tend
as of course
all to
it
it
It is to
be found
the
and immorality
The
and yet
it
chiefs
is
not
Art of Constructing
192
utive
practice
sloth,
of
Beauvilliers,
stretched out
health of the
whose pulse
and
to
a Halden,
never
has
able to
is
been
combine the
of the
Sybarite.
this labour is
accompanied by
the
tions
"
The
labour,
perspiration.
It
is
remarkably
tall
and corpulent.
For
may
in the public
a Turkish Bath.
193
many
seldom washed,
may
who have
toil,
The bath
and
however
possess,
require
how
exercise
for
extreme of indolence
The
substitutes an artificial
this explains
the people
to that of toil.
life
lethal gases
repose.
The
unctuous matter
tlio
and
is
partly insoluble
and external
its
functions,
enlisted in
Art of
94
and
remissness,
Constructing
and
charging
reciprocating
every
neglect.*
steam at 160
at a
This
is
bear
it
not
and the
the
child.
If
so,
efforts of
them
to with-
would
to roll
explained by the
from
and
the.
far
is
attended by neither
You seem
to take in
is
a sense of ineffable
and throw
forth your
breath in mere playfulness, no longer dependent upon
relief.
momentarily
for
life.
girl,
are equal
is
thrown.
They have
seats
by
a Turkish Bath.
" The bath has the
cines;
that
is
195
to say,
thus,
it is
is
medi-
it
is
cause.
a cathartic, a
but the
effect
It will bring
make
man drowsy
and
on the health v
is thus a drug, which
the need, and brings on
the healthy
as aloes would
diarrhoea
it
no
after consequences.
"This
is
something
new simple,
known remedy
to obtain a
It
would be
or an improved plan
of administering a
It
"
to
be
but my
and physician
deficiencies in this respect, and the appearance of
presumption in speaking confidently on a medical
a
profound
physiologist
amount
to seven millions.
Art of Constructing
196
am
certain of
it
As
ravages
may be
among
I
to
by
sits
had almost
it.
the result of
was written
It
and suppressed
about,
It was,
and
now adduce
as
it
having an
historical value,
crimination
habits,
dis-
combine
Your
curiosity
may
be awakened as to the
will
be
The
proposition, "
itself
It produced
a curiosity.
Heat
is
no
effect
of
my
answer
effect
at all.
much
it
has the
as noticed
in
vats,
other
workmen
a Turkish Bath.
Attempt to
secure so
medical man,
when
that I addressed
it
much
197
as the
attention of
one
Then medical
I built.
The
first
When
engaged on
it,
a friend, resid-
says to
me
"I
in a letter:
Sir
John Fife
of
my
and
direct.
diseases
the-
When
is
immediate
is
to its influence
Art of Constructing
198
joints
much
swollen,
One
if
by magic.
from the
since
any
'
much
freedom
am
able to
my
now
marked
many
relief.
affections of the
be obtained by medicine.
As
a simple illustration, I
may
lost his
a Turkish Bath.
voice
he was
199
same evening.
" The power the bath unquestionably
equalizing the circulation, renders
it
exercises
in
peculiarly useful
and
ague
fit
which I have frequently witnessed, the disperand varicose conditions, the neutral
cure of hernia, and the relief of 6tomach and
sion of hemorrhoidal
(tonic)
liver affections.
many
damp
a day.
much might
and
direction,
much
effected
bath.
" The hypochondriac, the
and dusk-worm,
proves an effort,
assuredly relieve
to
will
have reason
him of
bile,
to rejoice in
what
will
only making
use of perspiration.
They
They
are
are there as
Art of
2QO
Constructing
way
smooths the
is
it
by degrees on a
and
to the admission of
other-
who have
Such an avowal
men
and
amount
will never be
therefore rare
of logical constraint
must
Sir
John
Fife, in his
is
In
my
its
is afforded by the
In the incipient stages it is as easy to
In the further
stop the disorder as to wash the face.
stages, it can be arrested so long as there remains undis-
use of heat.
What
is
is,
life.
Company
in
Jermyn-
a Turkish Bath.
One
street.
of the
20
for
They were
all,
and
as not to
Tho word "bath" is utterly unSo soon as the operation comes to be regularly performed the word must be dropped, and the
annotation, as the case will be, "so many degrees of
heat radiating or transmitted, and so many hours of
trifling
means.
meaning.
exposure to
I could
it."
fill
commencement has
will suffice to
now
now have
been"
to adjust itself
result of its
own
on a new
discrimination
Art of Constructing
202
many
of our diseases,
remedial agent.
when
me
that
In consequence
had an ordinary Turkish bath raised to an
of this, I
inordinate
degree of
is,
temperature,
which of course
I remained in
it
was relaxed,
Out of the incident came
The next
step
occurred to
effect
was
me two
many
at the interval of
years ago,
when
years,
and
a difference of
suggested to
me
caloric.
It
was
to
test
results
were obtained
as
He must
an agreeable temperature
He must know
is
that while
a Turkish Bath.
203
degrees of
Thermce
all
heat.
mean
heat,
by us instead of the
and the
can
assert, in
regard to
to,
would be excluded.
my own
experience, that,
come
me
to
in desperate
if
may
own
have to proposo
is
in.
Every man
hospital.
Wo
have now
portant branch
private baths.
The
In
one.
it
The
most im-
public bath
is
at
is
it.
I have mentioned that
Northumberland,
as the first so
of Mr. Crawshay, of
constructed in England. Several years, however, before,
but
which
" It
shire
I
is
This
is
the account of
it
In every respect
it
answered
its
204
Art of Constructing
purpose.
and
not weakening.
never took one except in robust health, and I never
or heard of any bad effects from it."
;
will
it is
I
felt
It is that in
my own
country residence.
It
is
the bare
foot,
in.
Here, in the
floor,
entirely heated
from
it.
At
Constantinople, there
Here
is
Eastern.
Some
in this country
it
is,
a Turkish Bath.
the Lebanon.
Lebanon "
:
"
Emin
read
it
from
my
205
work on " The
Pasha busy with his census, and Sheik Said with his
guests,
had not
visited
when
sofa,
led
into a
however
neat,
It
was
steps
to
the bath
is
Of
all species
of apartments
for,
the
every
cleanly
fortune in
gentleman's establishment of
my own
modest
country.
with
it,
and that
at a cost of about
for
he same, or
this
360.
less,
was on
this
type that
titty
my own
persons a day."
It
structed.
of Constantinople
the
Art of Constructing
206
Romans going
the
andria,
Ancient
to
it
This would
Rome
daily.
fall
or Alex-
This daily
practice
is
But
is
opened to
this
new
enterprise.
Cheapness
1st,
The baths
of Prusias
these terms
have
felt
mere
intellectual
I can
pointed.
thereto
by
Then
it
conclusion to which I
me
this
you
are
there
a Turkish Bath.
207
towards completion, there has been a considerable modification, yet these exhibit what a bath ought to be.
There have been of necessity changes required by the
fuel of this country, and also as to ventilation, the
merits or demerits of which it would be premature to
enter on.
This is the building which I now can offer
you for a model, and I trust that this very evening
them
at a rate not
Qwdrmie hvattm
Horace.
The
rex
ibis,
him
feel as
for the
such.
me
to
shame you,
into
As
to expense, a
Rome
But
for
we have water
in
than at
or Constantinople.
if
new charge be
incurred,
we have on
the
Art of
208
Constructing
life,
be reckoned by millions.
to
At
sobriety.
sight the
first
;
it will,
how-
is
in use.
know
of no country, in
men
washing-tub
to
if
repair
to,
this,
the
and
not the
great cause of
if this
habit of
would be imposed on
sand baths.
spirits
and a public-
fire.
boor, or Laplander, or
Red
engaged in those
"
a Turkish Bath.
works, and
now
filthiest
population exists,
means of
cleanliness.
that
not
it
is
puffed
up with
know how
may
209
A nation
its
that boasts of
its
steam,
steam
to use
The
most extensive
with the
wash
to
its
be had gratis.
The people
bath cannot
we do
it
that
of sense.
possess,
the
map
it
for
my
own.
me
Is
to
make
this
Europe ever
to
endeavour
remain on
filth ?
the bath
now await
ridicule
Cossack
the
lance
After
Must she
for
Roman-like
to teach
us to
be
In conclusion
I will claim
egotistical remark.
in
if
for
I should
210
that each
man
number
as
rest,
the
precariousness of
And
The Duke
said
of
Wellington,
Why
does
Man
Perspire
A LECTURE.
(From the Newcastle Journal,
The
Jan., 1861.)
by George Robinson,
Esq.,
in the
announcement he had
to
make
Sir
relative,
to take the
im-
the
prolongation of
many
Ipainful
human
life.
(Applause.)
This
Why
212
does
Man
Perspire?
gave a
and consequently
in the body,
Why
does
Man
Perspire ?
213
by inattention
to details.
His
(Applause.)
important
friend,
Mr.
perfect bath at
letter,
great value,
had brought
it
before
the
Pathological
Northumberland,
Infirmary.
it
was introduced
(Applause.)
Duke
of
towns in England.
Why
214
does
Man
Perspire ?
money,
He
it
may
who
derived what
little
taken out,
it fell
to the
ground
heard of as that
a process
soldiers in this
race
it
;;
Why
bath
serve
they found
does
Man
Perspire ?
215
it,
it
results,
owing
to
to pre-
beneficial
who were
how
who
own
pockets.
(Applause.)
Therefore,
against
guard against
it
is
it
take
to
it
so simple, that
Why
does
Man
Perspire ?
Sultan
Dear
Sir,
In the numerous cases arising from sudden changes in the temperature of the body, a copious perspiration, which a stay of more or less duration in the calidarium
posed, but the bath.
is
Why
If the bath docs
fail
Man
does
Perspire ?
217
do
so.
This
civil hospitals,
is
institutions.
as with us,
The higher
all
it
is
classes,
and women
especially,
do not,
regular exercise, so that I perfectly agree with you that, were it not for the ample compensation afforded by the bath, they would not enjoy the excellent
carried on to
an extent which, if
stated, might be looked upon as fabulous.
Yet the gout is
not more prevalent, nor delirium tremens either. This immunity I can attribute to nothing else but to the expulsion of the
alcohol circulating in the system by the lungs and skin during
the stay in the bath. You wish to know how long, on an averIf a Moslem enters the
age, does a person remain in the bath.
and, moreover, that
it is
"Have,
most
Do
they never
In this, as in
there was a wish there would be a way.
P
cases, I suspect, if
" I shall not only be most happy, but consider it a duty, to
supply you, to the best of my knowledge, with any further
information you may subsequently stand in need of; for I con-
sider that
in
an attempt, which,
if
successful,
name
Why
does
Man
Perspire ?
in
"P.S.
West,
it is
now
Romans equally
life
is
shrouded.
will
have
arising
Turkey, which
it
I myself
Why
Man
does
iiy
Perspire
of
men
West, dropped
day,
their bath,
To-
it.
Constantinople,
at
was
in a small
still maintained.
It is true that what we
now in England may prevent its loss in the
may instance the very letter which has been
usages were
are doing
East.
first
the
in
England.
The
subject
is
upon
into
so
many
history with
onward
its
interpretations
to the sources of
so vast*
it
bears
you back
carrying
you
more than
indicate.
am
made.
first
application of
it
facilities
of personal
has been
who could
experience, who
It
Why
220
does
Man
Perspire ?
(Applause.)
my
all,
to
gratitude
is
social,
have had
to discuss the
men
as enemies.
I
I
ments
it.
is
altered,
disease.
to
general to
a small matter to
command an arm}
make
r
There
is
as a
physician.
He
Beside
the selection of a
no man who
man
as well
Why
disposition,
his
does
Alan Perspire
He
qualities.
will
zi\
place
himself in
cure of disease
is
While the
vention of disease
is
mations.
" Thank
quality
The really
God !" the
will
utter
an
scientific
man
practitioner
will
exclaim,
of the
opposite
different
exclamation
of
order.
man
sees in the
:
quantity of
very
little
who
will require
make
attending
is
the
first
to,
that nevertheless to
or amongst the
first to
medicine
itself is instituted,
in mi the
the
Those who
first
full benefit
will
will seize
deservedly obtain
for themselves
Why
222
Now,
then, in
does
what
Man
Perspire?
consists this
solely
because
am
successful.
have to do
began with
you to-night
myself.
how
tall
down
doubtless
it
influenced me.
At
last perspiration
broke
out,
Perspire?
Mr. Walker, in
St.
James's-place.
about
well.
it
it
223
When,
in the bath,
"
Do you know
it
is
know
was
instructed
my cure with
" Well," he said, " I ought
these
to
have thought
so,
I did
it
Why
2 24
Now
here
is
Man
does
the point
Perspire ?
it
is
word "bath:"
human
it
is
air."
body.
Let
heat.
It
is
As you
any
particular
frame.
111?
Why is
Why not
to
heat
fever
113?
act
first.
longer fever."
remedy.
When
was conquered.
"If
it
were 113,
last,
it
doubtingly,
would be no
Long
before I
much
of
of the benefit by
it
as long as possible,
and
How
comes
it
that,
by means of a
slight increase of
heat,
body
to discharge
water
Where
to
the
Why
does
am
Perspire?
is to
it
Man
that
human
race,
to himself
is,
he
225
if
and
say,
"
Why
pour
it
This
in ?
is
water
that
is
Why, then,
water.
r "
my own
Having put
these questions,
Though
it
rence ?
May
soiled,
'<
may
it
whilst that
coming
in
clean
is
And
"
is
this
Why
Man
DOBS
m\s PEBSPIBeP
wards with
it
all
it,
when
extraneous
matters.
(Applause.)
The blood
much
greater than
it
is
supposed
is
is
effete
matter which
poison.
In
fact,
that blood,
with
its
watery part,
is
Why
2a6
does
Man
Perspire ?
that wonderful
provision
When
consequence
is
through which
it
of nature
its
man makes an
effort,
The
perspiration.
dis-
(Ap-
the immediate
effort is the
purpose
The same
is
human being on
second by second,
Life
is
is
Every
inventing,
It is in chemistry
as in dynamics.
is an equal impingement
on your own, only you parry the blow. Whilst, then,
you are constantly producing the phenomena of life,
is
Why
Man
does
man which
forth out of a
Perspire?
227
him." (Applause.)
you interfere with the
natural facilities of that organ by which that poison is
to be carried off as rapidly as it is created, you superinduce a morbid condition of the frame. It matters not
to me in what manner it shows itself
whether it is in
If you impede
that
defileth
to say, if
is
one of those
When
results.
a disease.
of the inflammation.
if
Inflammation
produced,
it is
disease,
it is
itself
avail
themselves lethal.
with
that
obtain
it
all
the
ingredients requisite,
it
it
under
habit
this
90,
and
science
it
scale.
itself,
you cannot
and you stop
which has not perceived this first of the elements of cure, has already given the name of fermentation to certain classes of inflammatory disorders.
science,
The term
zymotic,
now
in
common
use, brings
This was
my
reasoning.
me
failed to effect
I started
upon the
viz.,
140.
Why
:a8
the inflammation
How
does
that
Man
is
Perspire ?
140?
perspiration.
vessels,
new
the
life
supposed
last
This
The Skin
it is
Digests.
229
am now
alive.
The skin
You may
is
precisely, but
also
is
what you
live in
that
your habitation.
it is
it
the other.
the liver,
reckoned as such
is
just as important in
But
I will
show you
it
No man
only
one that
is
is
he
may
give you
sound, to get a
little
suffering;
230
self
is
man
in reference to his
that predicament
That
(Laughter.)
own belongings
but he
to be in,
is
not in
He
can see
otherwise reach.
There
lungs
is
may
(Applause.)
Your
as if that
it,
sympathetically.
Your
was not
affected,
heart
is
in a
and
so
to
me
Now,
with diseased
liver.
man
comes
I say to him,
moment engaged,
You
the other.
are
all
at
this
Who
on the
latter ?
"
at
Not
231
do you think
is
busy
I answer,
will say.
all
it is your skin that is digesting your
and I will prove it." First of all, the lining
of the stomach is skin.
It is the external covering
dinner
turned
mean
That, however,
in.
to
say
is,
not
is
my
proof.
What
of the body.
is
the blood
digested;
is
is
digested
but
is
A man
efficacy,
is
it
it
is
in
bv
the world.
he
has
it
much
He
It
of
changes the
as he changes that of
is
made
it
and
must the
repairs itself
If your skin
is
made
to
bear the wear and tear of the world, and you prevent
that wear and tear, then the excellence of the construction
comes
to be a source of decay.
We
2j 2
to this, as I
adduce
to
it
meet a common
which
objection,
is,
that
lias
it is
the
of
lecture
Dr.
cure."
disease itself
is
I assert
habits.
man
is
and who
from natural
will contradict
me ?
that
and
the
if
there
is
human
frame,
it is
as a
(Applause.)
The very
first
of
am now
dealing.
is
You have
mean
itself against
to bear
friction.
The
itself, it fortifies
What do you
do ? You
You confine it, you
you condemn it to existence
external friction.
you cover
it
over,
for
it
of life-giving air
This
gases.
which
is
is
to be
233
fitted to
the person.
Wherever you
how
Beauty
all points.
is
a fruit of
human frame
present the
you
will
You
shop.
will find
to
him
find
tailor's
he
fitly to
not
is
or milliner's
Romans
to
In
diseases.
the
is
From
the
moment
that inte-
Here
is
When
I tell
to
the products of
built
into the
this
of
hall,
its
height
you
its
width, and
of
a third
of
men
234
of
ashes
that
are
Now,
table.
this substance is
upon
lies
the
and
it
epidermis
it
of polishing the
in ancient India.
applied to Africa.
said,
matter for
its
that
added to
is
is
it
the products of
when
it
has
its
to
if
life,
it
You
no
and no
it,
die.
die
many
hours.
The
increase of
Go
into a bath at
Perspiration
like
you
it.
Removal of Dead
Skin.
23 5
that horny matter you will not have allowed the free
escape.
men were
simple,
is it
when
when
when
The
to.
first
plan,
is
the best
way
there
it
is
;
is
very
It
to the different
and
methods adopted by
In the announcement of
tribes.
practised
very
among
little
the ancients.
be an impostor
may
lecture
it is
am
afraid I have
:
what
done
am now
I would
you I knew anything about the
take as an instalment.
if I told
my
different nations
talks to
is
positive knowledge.
The
we have any
peculiarity of the
Roman
"We trace
it
236
No
When men
common it
was
when
and when
they have taken it they hold fast to it. The Romans
were a set of bandits. Who were the Greeks? ask
even where they came from and what but echo can
answer ? Who were the Turks ? ravagers even within
the limits of history
and yet these three races were
great through transcendant judgment.
When, therefore, we refer to anything Roman, we have commenced
and not concluded an inquiry. In reference to the
strigil of Rome and Greece, the first thing will be its
name. The ancients were not philologists. Yet one
they see anything desirable they take
it,
of the later
and he
tells
Nor were
fore,
tion
Romans
did indulge a
little
in that branch,
And
it is,
there-
an epigrammatist that we owe the informathat the strigil came from Troy
to
" Pergamus
Non tam
The
Strigil
and the
ferro,
may
be
may
The Strigil,
be examined in the British Museum.
therefore, which represents one of the methods of
Removal of Dead
Skin.
237
Greek.
and,
indeed,
15ut
everything which
we know
as
Minor were
we have
liar modification of it in
which the
Strigil
was em-
through
men
cannot see
238
The
who
in
who
goes to
traveller
the beat,
and
suffi-
he has been
after
The next
reflection will
be or
may
Here
life
better than
fields
The
we
strigil
of classic antiquity,
their
the
own
well-being, or to
charm which
if
purifica-
ever there
to benevolence, it is the
call
239
your attention to
to-
night.
tion
will
it
not
flag,
because
it
earth,
dream.
this
is
essential to their
own
and
satisfaction
in
am
driven to
countrymen a
benefit of
which
my own
know and
my
experience
The Brahmins
and accident)
hold that
is
all disease
and a
a disgrace
sin, as
it
can
arise
the lusts, or an
of
is
sumption
to
be an
artificial
since I
From
duty,
that
moment
namely,
to co-operate
with
me
in effecting the
"
As
to
pallid
spectre
hearth
among
known where
its
stated
which
sits
by every tenth
Bath
is
it
is
means." *
*
that
domestic
ii.,
ch.
on Bath.
by
At
241
"On
Physician
tion
Had
as to
this
me
been foretold to
to be
recompense
persecution
that
I accept
it
now
it
as a
which
all
common
Consumption
is
known formerly
modern
in
England than
was no more
It
disease.
is
it
known
formerly, even
There can
when
there
is
to-day
England
no bath.
bo, therefore,
Consumption.
relief
may
be so afforded.
and no more.
is
Such
relief
It
is,
is
a remedy for
made
progress,
a ohanoe, an incident,
at
as
yet
abode.--,
tin-
present
means of
Conounvntly with the idea that climate product
disease,
to
nor,
undeveloped malady.
"He
symptoms of the
(or
she)
is
of a
R
Consumption -produced by
242
consumptive habit,"
is
no uncommon expression.
The
least
doomed man."
It is in the structure of
lies, if at
The
the breaking of a
bank or the
of a structure
fall
the
The condition
development
consists in
and
Thus
sun-light.
is
organ
is
called
if
upon
healthy,
and
The
the skin.
is,
to
the
charged
That
is
it
when exposed
is
blood.
being small,
that
friction.
air
of temperature,
its
is
is
even incapaci-
normal work.
seeing the
and the
facilities
distinctive
of precaution
it.
it
so plain
scientific,
that the
that
is,
the
man
of
the
historical
periods,
am
effort
every skin
becomes overpowering
in
In cases of
he puts in their
condition of
describing the
modern Europe.
and
ill-assorted
243
having, in
to perform, the
thence distintegration of
flammation,
disease
Wasting
sweating fevers
which
to
have
in
significant
the
other
words,
names
that
Decline,
no remedy
is
in
the Phar-
macopoeia.
Far, however,
alarming,
should hold
consumptive patient in
because
tlie
man
medical
to
it
whom
is
in the Boience,
common
say, " I
"The public
make
interest
any physician.*
have
my
eolchicum."
medical
The
l'luti-
profession.
to
an
man would
*
took
Were
themselves to the
instrument."
in this
Our
Br. Tltudichum.
Consumption produced by
244
macopceia^the knife
barriers in tbe
way
is
clear
In Consumption,
fortu-
at
and
that
to
on pain of
to,
is to
its
its
as
by
inertness.
no account of heat.
The
it
it,
do
own
the means
live,
its
recovered from
Now,
to
advise or
resources in
seek
assist
who
to dispense to those
No medical man
Having
disre-
We
is
the
for disease.
art,
245
at least, as in its
by
man
that
let
in
elec-
trically isolated.
1.
Warm
2.
Complete external
air
3.
The
4.
The saving of
purification.
results of exercise
which he cannot
electricity
(life),
take.
otherwise dis-
persed.
5.
The cleansing
of
floating
all
impurities.
G.
muscle
is
deposited,
as
to
liquid, firmer
tissues increased.
7.
night-sweats.
8.
9.
are combined
vice versd.
The
by
arrested.
number
of
12.
is
removed by shampooing
so that
Consumption produced by
2,46
is
as the liver
relieved.
I will take
now two
but an
it *is
Shampooing
the Sun.
Shampooing.
I shall dispose of this by a passage written at Baal-
beck in 1850
"
A man
:
not born into the world with clothes
nor are
ready-made hatters, hosiers, and tailors, natural products. Man
is born in his skin, and is, so to say, his own clothier: it is that
skin that has to sustain the wear and tear of the world; and
being endowed witli that faculty, it is needful to it to undergo
that wear and tear. Man is his own clothier instead of having
to go to a shop for a new suit of skin, he from within is constantly repairing that which he has.
But, if he puts a covering
over that skin, the wear and tear no longer takes place ; and
the impenetrable varnish so supplied by nature not being worn
off, the body becomes suffocated, and the man is afflicted, just
as a plant would be when taken out of the light and excluded
from the air. Thus it is that, from the moment that the verdant
and partial covering of Adam and Eve was replaced by textile
and general clothing, the first necessity of man came to be the
removal of his dead skin,
" For this purpose four processes have been adopted throughout the families of the human race. The first was, the rubbing
down with the ball of the hand, as still used for currying horses
is
of high breed.
The three
and
Habits, not Climate.
247
polishing.
The scraping was with the strigil, which we know
of from the liomans and Greeks, hut which is figured on the
tombs of Lyriu.
The
rolling
is
The polishing
by the Moors, to whom it
is
is
with the
confined.
is
used
fur it." *
Rays of
As
to
the
effect in
the Sun.
the
way
have
to
delivered
at
" Before
country,
'
that
employed were, divesting her of tight and dark clothing,
and making her lie in the sun during every hour that he shone:
I
ii.,
p. 386.
Consumption produced by
248
skin.
it
of those breezes
we
and
finally shut it
up
in a case, in
we render
it
We
air.
:
we
deprive
which
right to
shut out
it is
of moisture,
darkened and
no longer serviceable
for the
it
sun
As
of
its
A physician
has, however,
fallen
upon
it
of
arising
New York
accidentally, as
would
at
Effects of Light
1860.
Seclusion from
life.
sickly
sunshine
the dark cellars, operates to produce the pale, sickly girls that
are reared in our parlours.
Expose
the sun, and they begin to show colour, health, and strength
One
The
me
249
objection in this
case
objections,
may be urged
is,
against
however
it.
The
(perspiration)
is
lowering."
may
very malady.
(Wright)
is at
unable to pursue
Bath.
The maladies
afforded, are
in
affected.
He was obliged,
in
coming up-stairs,
one after
relief is
first,
on every
stair,
sixty, I
'
find
other particular.
'
Dr. WarrtH.
Consumption produced by
250
to
Yet
Hammam
(the superintendent
so elsewhere.
On making
money had
as
arisen.
The
history of
follows
subjoined experiments
the
as
is
to
its
A discussion
* " Mr. Urquhart wrote to me, towards the close of last year.
If
and
new
will
past,
career of experiment
of pathology.
frame,
By
this
'
251
them with
a confidence
to opinions
spoke suc-
it,
and asserting
Being invited
impossible for
were ignorant
them
;
to
result
to speak,
it
was
but that
if
it,
my
at
happy
to
lit
to
put to me.
This invitation was accepted:
tilling
writer,
It
the twelve
at the
I
have
learnt
since
that
most
the
eloquent
lie will
convert
make
science
made
denouncing
honest by pointing
my
on
finger in
and
if
I claim to be
by
and modes of thinkiDg,
Consumption produced by
252
that occasion
Dr.
Richardson
has
become a
since
convert.
my
statements were
ture to say
so,
and available
It
left intact.
existence,
was then
of the papers
now
reprinted.
He was
one of those
me
for
the
felt
the East
what a Bath
the
public
by the
spurious
really
was, lest
side.
it,
find-
results, I
it
at his
The Board
1861,
to
redeem
my
this arrangement,
that
pledge.
is
The
in October,
experiment
253
two years.
Whilst these cases were attending the Bath, I scrupulously abstained from so
much
as
an observation in
It
myself.
Had
maintenance of health.
my
in
number
twice the
it
during
that
is,
at
if this
first
now
that so fortunate
an
There
is,
however, no
week
why
Bhould not now say that the results might have bees
attained in
time.
quarter
if
Consumption produced by
254
when
bleak, cold,
But he went
use
An
daily.
it
26th,
Bath
at
200
rj
into
and
to
I860,
"My
weeks
in his
own
house, treating
him
pulse 75
coughs very
little
good appetite
I will
now
writer
is
London
medical chemist
Here
practitioner,
"
September
30, 1861.
On
Habits, not Climate.
255
Two
affairs go
K.
perfect health."
Two
days luter
" Last
lie
writes
It
is
many
days,
weeks,
results
have
to
drugging out
Physicians stand in
have been
who would
pretending the desire of investigation, demand the production of hospital experience and results.
How
can
deny
trial,
the Bath
is
trial in
satisfied that it
one peculiar
first to
demand
would be success-
Consumption produced by
256
At
Turkish Bath
"
Morocco
is
who do
not use
the Bath, but whose garments are open, like the toga of
the
Bath, and
peculiarly subject to
it.
medical
at the
my
which I
am bound
he made thereon a
to quote
it
was
criticism
in substance this
if
he
is
minded
to dissuade
'
You
will
his patients
at once say,
The
writer
Habits, not Climate.
257
take
way
my
of cure.
This
is
not true.
man you
like
Williams
turn to
p. 193,
you
take
Consumption,
" Now,
in a
if
more
distinctive fashion,
in a less absolute or
having referred
I mean, that
of
may
lesion,
is
in
then
under-
Fully
will
add that
in
In treating of the
is
hesitatingly pre-
dicated, he says
gradually removed."
is
all
258
of the disease
when
of
the amount
up
to the
moment
life.
But then
the " air " shall be admitted through the skin as well
as the lungs,
Treatment of
by the Turkish
Phthisis
Bath.
ARTHUR LEARED,
Bv
Physician
From
to
M.D., M.R.I.A.,
Diseases of the Chest.
the
have long
believed that
we make
had much
to
its
pores
When
in
Turkey
had frequent
it
was
might be most
effectively
employed
as a remedial
and
this
is
Gout,
unknown amongst
probably us much due
said to be
exemption
is
by the B&th as
to
Treatment of Consumption
260
Bath
caloric
The
effects of the
to
The treatment
gress for
iron,
many
of phthisis has
years.
or no pro-
little
acids,
in
this
marked by depression
of
vital power.
oil,
made
The
may
my
my
in
the
experimental inquiry.
It
by the Turkish
or
Hot-air Bath.
An
in the fullest
general
way about
fairly
made
public.
to
the
Jermynin a
any theory
me by
in
action
afforded
Company
occupy
my
mind,
it
its
tested and
appeared to
to
allow
me
that
by the 'Turkish Bath.
As
to
261
its
pores and
Experi-
li<rht.
the lungs.
Second.
If,
as
is
ot
by excretion of offending
sweating induced
in a better
and
artificially
safer
might
effect
manner.
symptom,
precedes
this, as well
it,
as
would be
first
it
to
from
half an hour to an hour or longer, the time being regulated by the action of the skin
and
their
own
feelings.
'Treatment of Consumption
262
Great care was taken not only to observe any improvement, but also to prevent possible harm.
I regret that I
number of
am
results.
commenced with
its
effects,
to
it.
The
first
phthisis,
whom
improvement
of
fatal
;;
263
Royal Infirmary
out-patient- at the
He had
year.
Present
state.
Jan.
1st,
1862
shooting pains in
the chest, especially through the right side
night-sweats
troublesome cough, with yellow sputa. The upper and ante;
on percussion,
heard over a consider-
and
in the
is
He
was ordered
baths
cough
better,
-,
The
mammary
region hardly to be
distinguished.
Feb. 17th.
Cough
and
same
expectoration
rather
better
and quinine
as
up
he did
omitted.
April 21st.
Health
like
what
in every respect
it
Treatment of Consumption
264
and now walks
inconvenience
to
apex seems
less
appreciable.
signs the
same
as
who made
son,
on June 25th.
the
note
following
" Slight
harsh,
still
apex
no
almost
moist
tubular,
sound
with
respiration
prolonged
dulness on
respiration at
at
left
expiration
apex
face
pale."
Oct. 20th.
Had
bath on day he
last
saw
me none
;
since.
Physical signs
No
crepitation at right
is
good.
Physical
265
signs unchanged.
Showed me
7th.
before
my
arrival.
ten o'clock.
sub-clavicular
spaces w
Body
ell
filled.
Some
266
The
Treatment of Consumption
left
;
of a cheesy consistence.
Remarks.
result
from
It
is
So
phthisis.
far
and the
cavities
and
it
is
state of the
nor softening
It is certain
is
well
known
probable that
fatal issue.
arises,
review
None
of the
this
may
to the time of
attacks
From
The
;
and
be drawn from
had been
ill-
But
it.
let it
be remembered that, up
this
man's
life
of
haemoptysis,
and of imperfect
rallyings.
At one
first
is
the
It
is
also
267
Crepi-
perfectly
Both of us observed
No
also
tubercles
But the
in the part of
must
local crepitation
and
it
can only
am
A.
became
my
sister,
who
month ; and he
affection.
He
lost
his
mother
also
slight
oil, tonics,
The
cough.
and sedatives,
In June,
1861,
he again
until
consulted
me, and
he went
into
the
He
improved at
first
treat-
268
Treatment of Consumption
20tli,
illness).
less capable
Much
slight
feels
weak and
night-sweats
languid,
very easily
two
eighteen baths
liver oil
time previously
found
it
unnecessary
much
expectoration also
less.
him
The
;
he
sleeps
well;
appeared.
remove
left cavicle to
the back
signs.
Dulness on percussion as before no crepitant
sound whatever on deep inspiration or coughing, but a peculiar
low creaking sound no cavernous breathing or other signs of
Physical
cavity.
Feb. 12th.
exception,
all
at Dr.
The gentleman
ftbly.
ment
269
improve-
Baths.
March
21th.
Since
last entry
^ us
weighed on 9th ult., and found he had gained four pounds and
a half in a month. Cough rather better fine crepitant sounds
under left clavicle.
has
April Kith. Twenty-first week of Bath treatment
had about fifty baths in all. Is now in all respects going on
well.
Sleeps well, and has no night-sweats appetite good
bowels regular; cough almost gone. Has worked ten hours
a day for last two months, except on days when he takes the
;
bath.
May
18th.
Doing
Weighed on 15th
well.
ult.
126 pounds,
mode
(This
of
is
to be understood
left
phony
Sept. 10th.
at
>(
has
worked
full
left
baths.
an
With
Took three
it is
when
when
bo
lie
takes the
months.
Ordered
Treatment of Consumption
270
26th.
Taken
Johnson
vicle
mamma.
Expectoration
in
morning."
Oct. 29th.
Has
lately
in drawing,
Cough
bath days.
in the morning.
drier.
March
11th, 1863.
little trouble
no night-sweats;
works on an average nine hours a day
has taken the baths and cold plunge twice and sometimes three
times a week.
May 14th. Says his cough is better than since commencing
Baths can go up-hill much better than he could some months
ago works and takes baths as usual. He has long been in the
habit of walking to and from the bath, a distance of about six
miles but his weight has not been sustained lately weighs
126 pounds.
119 pounds.
1;
27
stantly in the
more
still
beneficial to him.
Since then he has been from eight to ten hour9 daily employed
actively in his duties.
He
when
less at night
in the Bath,
and
me
assures
that his " chest feels quite easy," and that his appetite and
pounds
in the Bath.
left
right apex.
Remarks.
This
years.
From
the
taken not
commencement up
less
Add
to
to this four
At
pounds a day
loss (a
this
moderate
524 pounds.
This
is
total
will be
126 pounds.
Some
idea
Treatment of Consumption
ay 2
may
treatment.*
As
to the result, it
is,
of course, admitted
hand,
when
first,
On
afterwards advanced.
the other
all
appearance
by a great improvement
hope
it
in both,
developed.
it
may
more
and there
which
it
is
it
is
reason to
it
following
treated by the
is
Bath
is
favourable,
would be
The
is
a case of phthisis in
same
still
disease.
its first
stage
* " It
evacuations by sweating
with
less
Todd's
freely, and
disadvantage to patients, than by any other secretion."
Clinical. Lectures, 1860, p. 409.
273
Physical
and that the dyspnoea is less troublesome.
Well-marked dulness on percussion in the right infraclavicular region; deficiency of expansion, and roughness of
tion,
signs
respiration.
He
oil
half daily.
Nov.
13th,
intervals
of about a fortnight.
his busi-
and
examining
carefully
ness,
is
much
After
careful
is
to
myself conclusive.
to
have relation
to the
any
cir-
improved
who
am
There
tastily accepted.
of the physician
is
is
new treatment
a
are not to be
itself biassed in
if
the
to
mind
farour of a remedy,
Treatment of Consumption
274
But even
if
As
fallacies.
it
ment
suffered
Dyspnoea.
symptom
There
from
this asserted
beneficial effect.
J.
this
especially com-
when he com-
his
power of
increased exertion as
greater strength.
suggestive.
Hcemoptysis.
It might
by the stimulating
On
heat.
reflection this
effects of
seemed
to
to
it
a high degree of
me
improbable,
as,
The
blood
sult
is
superficial
is
The
re-
J.
who
had the
much from
haemoptysis, never
Bath
suffered so
27 5
who had
it
and
its
The
Night perspirations
been
As
in
A patient
symptom.
perspirations told
me
Bath has
of
and
uncommonly
rience
is
loss
of weight.
strong impression
asserted
and
it is
not
confined to a single
recover from
trial,
several days.
One
of the
by those who
ing
in
the consumptive.
As
debility
much more
sensitive of
is
is
a leading
symptom
in
be.
Now,
came under
my
notice, the
Bath was
Treatment of Consumption
276
from the
first
As
far as all
outward appearance
To myself
it
whom
It
is
vitality
impossible to
was
so
much
to
unless
may
The
oil.
ago
that
it
Not
five years
to pass while in a
dangerous.
The dread
extent.
when
a schoolboy, having
is
if
heated by
first
it.
277
of
regulation
was
coolness
This refrigeration
from bathing.
results
It
may
tion
risk,
Now,
it
seemed
to
me
that
my
since
phthisical
At
cold.
first
if
not
resist
any
the
new experiment.
sanguine expectations.
mediate
effects
to
That
result exceeded
The
my
most
be agreeable,
and no subsequent
much
This
is
less liable
to catch cold
than pre-
common
are
Nothing
is
more important
hardy a
life
His hope
lies in
for
much
living as
In selection
much
regarded.
is
to
Treatment of Consumption
278
According
to
my
is
is
The absence
relaxing.
mainly to be considered.
by rendering
of climate
more
patients
tolerant of our
the physical
ment.
the case of J.
of crepitation in
and the
lung under
state of the
In the
H. "W
it
case of
and returned,
crepitation disappeared
must
as if
to warrant
the
inference
the
that
insufficient
is
bath
treatment
and
Its
good
highly encouraging.
effects are, of
up of the lung
There
is
enough
to
W
make
is
us
mind
to
as well as to
many
to
we have been
to
2jg
fail
well,
at least
proved greatly to
alleviate suffering.
If
it,
unfortunately,
fell
to
my
lot to
be affected by
DR.
December
My
deae
Sie,
The
secretions of the
we
human
26th, 1860.
may
skin
be
convenience,
include the water that divides the solids with the volatile
portion, though it
is
so.
found
any other
in sweat.
When
the first place to the greater quantity, they take the following
order
Water, carbonic acid, chloride of sodium, urea, and
:
lungs
by the
281
Perspiration.
same, together with some mineral food, and the results of food,
producing motion (muscle albumen). The kidneys discharge
the products of albuminous food (sometimes called plastic,
muscle-forming) in the form of urea and mineral salts, of several
of which they are the sole channel of exit.
Considering that the bulk of the sweat glands in the aggregate amount to two-thirds of that of both kidneys, the quantitative importance of the solids excreted
doubted.
If the evaporation prevents the sweat from collecting on the
form round the mouth of the sweat gland- The urea then soon
decomposes, producing carbonate of ammonia, which combines
with volatile acid. Such ammonia salts constitute the smelling
elements of sweat, viz., the most repugnant one. Healthy,
fresh sweat from a clear skin has_ a most agreeable odour, or
none
at all.
saved.
Thus
life is
prolonged and
282
Perspiration.
In kidney
monary
diseases, the
carbonic acid.
or features which
made them
so fatal.
of
its
blessings.
D. Urquhart, &c.
W. Thudichum, M.D.
is
had
confined to chronic
is
we
to say, to gout,
rheumatism,
colds, stiffness of
roach of
ciation of
all
it
medical
is
aid.
Consequently
phant march of
febrile
maladies which
suddenly overpower
action
as displayed
its
forms,
my
appre-
and triumin
those
the individual,
namely,
fever in
scarlet,
When
me
these ideas
came
open the subject to others, I found no one prepared to admit so much as the possibility of having of
to
and at
man who
did
Cancer, Leprosy,
284
on the necessity of
pre-
me
It appeared to
to
So
it
apoplexy.
In regard
to the
two
first,
As
to hydro-
fourth, although
no
fit
As
its efficiency
tests,
because
them
in
This
But
it
is all
I con-
covers every
would
offer this
hospital
285
analogy.
every variety of
human
ailment,
is
including
restricted in
its
it
is
will
them
your science
is
Your
dia^rii-
let
me throw
I will let
the windows
if
incipient or an
[>n
advance i
relief
of a
;
slate,
so as in the
new remedy by
first
to
the hope of
The proposal
in such
a case of a
new remedy
was,
had been,
in consequence,
abandoned.
286
Cancer, Leprosy,
difficulty of
&c.
is
is
When,
which,
in
itself,
after
On
these
How
poreal.
far I
was
effort,
mental or
successful in the
cor-
means em-
show.
Cancer, alike individual and hereditary, alternates
common
cating a
origin.
indi-
applied to cancer.
Cancer
use,
as
is
also
unknown
is
in
is active.
It
is
is,
Case of Cancer.
cancer owes
its
287
to the habits of
Modern Europe
that
warm and
is
&c,
to say, to the
close-fitting vest-
for
the purpose of
digestion.
This view
further
is
first,
salt,
secondly, of
common
ternal
play.
At
of radiating heat.
CASE OF CANCER.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Rickrnansworth, August 9th, 1861.
It
Dear
Sir,
is
likewise to yourself, to
whom
am
Case of Cancer.
a8 8
me
some means
Case of Cancer.
289
sank
to give
up a
treat-
my
my
mm
assured by
am
>r.
In order, however, lo
restored, he advises
longer; and
am both
ami
pain
linn
<
me
my
retire Later,
mi
real
lean
lie
pother gone,
it
is greatly diminished,
Instead of feeling listless, inert, and incapable of thought or aotion, I can now employ myself
throughout tho day and, in fact, 1 feel the greatest change,
both physically and mentally. At first the bath seemed to
and
if
mil
is
constant.
exhaust, but
in,
now
come out
stronger than
feeling
lie
high.
when
If at ISO 3
I go
and
upwards, and the alcove high in proportion, say 200 Q and above,
in fact, it is a Irish keat, and
experience the most benefit
1
Case of Cancer.
290
days or
so, I
gradually found
it
trifling difference
between
it
and
the
the back,
it
perspires freely.
incomplete were
diet.
often,
life.
Believe me,
&c,
Agnes Eobertson.
P.S. I may as well mention that for the first month I felt
attendance on the bath as irksome, and only a duty now I experience all the pleasurable sensations described by so many.
;
Case of Cancer.
291
August 20th.
my
letter,
which
moment
think
it
when
recommended me
to drink
in the bath,
Mr. Urquhart
When
description,
draught, or as
much
air as possible,
previously short and thin, has grown longer, and become much
thicker since I came here. I think now I have mentioned all
in
my
Deab
Sib,
I feel
that
and
for
which
Case of Cancer.
292
to
Heaven was
to be
than an apathetic indifference arising, perhaps, from the belief that it was
useless to try any further remedies for my disease.
It is, yon, therefore, that I must regard as the chief means
of my restoration to health and vigour for I am convinced
that, had you not roused my dormant energies, and shown me
my real state, that in all probability, by a continuance of selfindulgence, the good effects of the bath would have been of
resignation to the will of
little else
little avail.
Agnes Robeetsox.
D. TTrquhart, Esq.
Riverside,
August
me
31st, 1861.
a gratification
Miss Robertson.
Case of Cancer.
65,
293
my
care,
the disorder of the blood, of which the tumours are but a local
expression, had reduced you to such a state of weakness that
mile.
Your mind, morewas in a condition of hopeless indifference, which made
you very unhappy.
A persistent use of the Turkish bath, and the adoption of a
peculiar specially adapted diet, have now, after seven months,
effected such a change in your condition, that the dyscrusia of
the blood has ceased to produce the amount of morbid material
which is necessary for the deposition of tumours. But not only
has the progress of the local disease been thus arrested, but in
addition, the relapse, which had attained the size of a cherry,
could at my last examination, not be perceived any longer the
tumor had evidently been dissolved. The arm had lost much of
its size, and its surface had begun to share in the important
function of the remaining part of the skin perspiration. Pain
had been mitigated, digestion had been restored. Strength and
well-being had returned to you to such a degree that you could
walk a distance of five miles, and ,felt called upon to give
expression to your altered state of mind, in a letter to your
benefactor, Mr. Urquhart.
At this juncture the question arises, whether you should
continue the use of the bath and of the diet, which have
Considering that you were
effected such remarkable results.
the subject of an experiment, that the experiment has been so
far successful, but that it is not yet complete by any means,
I think I am obliged to advise you most decidedly to continue the present mode of treatment. For though your disorder
Case of Leprosy.
294
fatally,
but not
till
after a long
cessation of the
a relapse
amended.
CASE OF LEPEOSY.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Burlington-street, Ashton-under-Lyne,
June
Respected
I wrote
12, 1860.
to
Case of Leprosy
295
Burlington-street, Ashton,
Respected
Sib,
note
is
to give
months.
1 had wet bandages on my arms, thighs, and legs, with oil
silk over them, and renewed the bandages three times a day
also, that on my belly for some months, I had fresh bandages
nearly every morning, and found the oftener I had clean ones
on the better.
I am now without the wet bandages.
I have continued the
Case of Leprosy.
296
I
after coming out of the bath, and never took cold but once.
found my own towels.
The scurf has come off me in such large flakes during the
night that we have had to sweep the bedroom every morning,
and a large quantity has come for a long time this way.
Indeed, it has bristled like leaves. My duty to you.
I am, respected Sir,
Your humble and obedient servant,
Isaac Sumner.
P.S.
and
could.
My
Deae
Sie,
I do
not
know
if
The
and to the
animal food, and of
Case of Leprosy.
297
for as
75,
you
a tra-
a bath
is.
Cavendish-square, W.,
17, Henrietta-street,
June
My Dear
Sir,
28, 1860.
am
not surprised
how few
The seventeen
years' case is
of chronic
to recur.
shall
its
hideous
way
from the shores of the Nile, through Syria, Greece, Italy, and
France, to England thou turned about, and marched northward, to Scotland and Scandinavia that still lingered in the
Hebrides, at the close of the last century and has ever since
:
Case of Leprosy.
298
suffering
under
this
hopelessly
doomed.
May God
Eeasmus Wilson,
C.B.
Riverside, Rickmansworth,
June
29th, 1860.
acutely revived in
me
a long
tell
is
my mind
lected skin,
and that
will
is to say to be treated
of the rays of the sun, the breath of heaven, the
by means
Case of Hydrophobia.
If the order of the bath
is
299
Cross.
And
believe
me
to be,
Yours
faithfully,
David Ubquhakt.
Erasmus Wilson, Esq.
Up
to
CASE OF nYDROPnOBIA.
I should not mind my own child being bitten by a mad dog,
so certain am I that the bath would cure him.
Some time
since I asked a medical man to find me a case of hydrophobia,
told
Case reported
in Gali(jnani's
is sufficient
to prevent
hydrophobia by
Tendency of Blood
300
to the
Reaumur (127
perature of from 42 to 48
Head
to 140 Fahrenheit.
it till
the cure
is
would be
in
him
in.
generally supposed,
J.
Wells.
the head.
and
Epilepsy.
301
my
|ni">1.
am
as
to the
still
ensure
efficacy of the
cool
forehead.
am aware
that
an
week
to
erroneous
of
that the
circulation, a
even before the heaviness affecting
head and eyes begins to go off.
circulation which
Nov.
is
felt
John Cooke.
19, 1863.
What
is
Hut
it
may be
is
very
common
in this
302
Special Cases.
SPECIAL CASES.
IMMUNITY FROM POISONS BY A HIGH
TEMPERATURE IN COPPER MINES.
Extracts from "Reports of Commissions, Session 1842.
Diseases of the heart and great vessels might, a priori, be
expected to be of frequent occurrence under the above circumstances (inhalation of carbonaceous and mineral particles).
My
we
anticipated.
life,
as
effects of
Special Cases.
303
healthy.
The doctor attends these people at one-third less
per month titan the colliers pay.
This statement is borne
out by the evidence of Mr. W. P. Evans, the surgeon of the
works
may
copper works
six
tho
men
During these
severe
operations the
men
usually carry a
impunity a
shire, p. 67;>.)
304
Special Cases.
INGUINAL HERNIA.
Oct. 22nd, 1862.
it,
patient's person.
to increase a little
finally, the swelling
disappeared entirely.
E. D. Dickson,
Physician to the British Embassy.
In the month of September, 1859, I had an attack of ophthalmia, with severe inflammation in right eye, and was under
Dr. Macmurdo as my medical attendant, who reduced the
inflammation in about six weeks and I was enabled to do
;
my sight. At this
was very bad. I arranged to undergo the
operation, but was unable to fix the day and before I could
do so, Mr. Barnes was taken seriously 'ill, which prevented my
being able to leave business for the purpose. In December
I was suffering very acutely from rheumatism, and expressed
it
removed
time
my
sight
Special Cases.
305
tinued
it
more or
less.
On
taking the
and on calling, in
July 1861, on Dr. Macmurdo, at his request, he was astonished
to see the alteration in the eyes
and instead of advising an
operation, he advised the contrary, and to keep on as I was
going, and allow no one to do anything to my eyes.
My sight
improved on first taking the baths, and has continued so to
this time, except for a short time last summer, when I got a
bath, I left
first
off" all
medical treatment
Macmurdo
again, he got rid of that, but said nothing about the cataract.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE
SIGHT.
and
for
me when
I require
An
London
Practitioner.
for
Special Cases.
306
******
May
10.
rence continued.
He
was noisy
at night
his habits were
he was feebler. (Edema of the legs had set in. The
urine* was found laden with albumen, abundant in quantity,
specific gravity 1025, clear, no deposit. The heart was healthy;
pulse 110. He was rambling in his conversation he spoke
dirty
and
ability,
Special Cases.
307
He was
He
ture.
be carried
to
to the bath.
feebly
He had
pulse 70, on
hiH return.
May
21.
The
present only.
lulling
Company,
week.
December
Eemabks.
be
action in the early stage of that disease. I long to see the bath
fairly tried in zymotic diseases. I believe, if used in sufficiently
continued for
many
hours.
308
it
Special Cases.
In the case above recorded, I have little doubt that the bath
saved the patient's life and restored him to reason.
He
steadily lost ground until he began its use
the delusions
increased the bodily health gave way oedema of the limbs set
in, and he was so weak that he had to be carried to the bath,
and could hardly stand when he came up from it. In six weeks
;
SCARLATINA.
Brighton, March, 1864.
I have been laid up with scarlatina, infected, no doubt,
during my attendance at St. Mary's Hall, where it has
Special Cases.
abounded.
severity of
my
309
my
is
belief,
days only
for me immediately preceding
my
attack.
Chables Beyce.
CHILD-BEARING.
A
able to
HAIR RESTORED TO
A
ITS
ORIGINAL COLOUR.
erected a small bath for his own and family's use, whose
hair had gone grey, " with the use of the bath for several
who
weeks, twice and three times per week, restored it to its original
colour." This circumstance was communicated to me by the
gentleman himself, when I called upon him to look at his bath
31o
Special Cases.
This was found out by the daughter at the dinnerday or two before he related the circumstance to me.
John Thistlewhaite was afflicted for many years with scrofula
all over the face, and the eyesight to such an extent he could
scarcely see his way along the street without assistance.
Being in humble circumstances, I brought his case before the
committee and they granted him a free ticket for a quarter:
He took the bath every other day and after the second week
he could see to read bills posted on the walls as he came along
to the bath.
He now enjoys good health, and is pretty good
in his sight, so that he can follow his employment, the bath
restoring him after every other means had failed.
He had
been under the Eye Infirmary in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle-on-Tyne and other treatment, medical and non-medical,
had been recommended to him. This case I had under my
in 1859.
table a
charge in Bradford.
He is now living in Victoria-street,
Manchester-road, and belongs to the Sick Club to which I
belong so that I can testify to his case.
;
AGUE.
Worthing, December 3rd, 1862.
I wish to give you an episode of yesterday in illustration of
the benefit of the bath in a household.
I
am
liable to
Special Cases.
31
I did so.
The fire had just been put on. The
thermometer stood only at 140. I laid down, feeling indisposed, and unable to get up again, and disembarrassed myself
heated."
gradually of my clothes.
The heat rose rapidly within a
quarter of an hour it was up to 160. I was in profuse perspi"Within another quarter of
ration, and the pain had ceased.
an hour, the heat having risen to lHO- all sensation of sufFering
:
down
from
a severe ague.
My
heat by radiation.
The place where
lay
It is closer
J
the radiation from the red-hot metals so that 20 more may
be added for the difference between radiating and transmitted
;
caloric
Special Cases.
may be
of words.
He
fortified this
by saying,
"
You know
than his
own
these are
My words were,
perspiration;" thereby,
show the necessity of getting out the filth of his own perspiBut he had no notion
ration, that itself should become clean.
beyond this, that perspiration was, and must be, filthy and,
to
serious attack.
On
me
for
They
313
Special Cases.
Yesterday morning I went into the bath at
The heat was low. It gradually rose to 150.
half-past eight.
When
came
usual.
all the sensations that follow a
of ague, and could at times scarcely credit that
I had not had one.
At a quarter-past ten I went in again.
severe
fit
went
and woke at half-past
seven, without having stirred all that time, and with a feeling
of health, freshness, and vigour which I have not known for
years.
My nights are always disturbed. After an hour this
morning, beginning at 150, and rising to 180, I went out to
It
was then
at 180
came out
fell
at a quarter-past eleven,
asleep,
bath."
CASE OF CHOREA
(ST.
VITUS'S DANCE).
Special Cases.
314
down
when
sitting,
she was
At night her
.restlessness
but occasionally it
would be sent half way across the room, showing the great
muscular spasmodic irritability that existed. The expression
of her countenance and general appearance led to the idea that,
if she was not then, she was verging towards becoming an
generally let
it
fall
that,
imbecile.
and spare
habit.
Her treatment
certain extent
appetite better,
there was
little
still
in poor circumstances, I
it
altogether disappeared.
them
About
and
'
Special Cases.
315
may
as strong as
any
girl
took
is
in perfect health,
and
She
week.
such
is
first
obvious indication
SWELLING OF THE
JOINTS,
etc.
March, 1859,
the particulars of
to September, 1859
my
illness
from
316
Special Cases.
quently felt the sensation in the legs and feet which is termed
" going to sleep," and violent throbbing in the calves of the
appetite was very good, but still I wasted so rapidly
legs.
My
rather freely.
During the
fifth
week
Special Cases.
317
except that the pain, when they entered the feet, was much
greater, and a contraction of the muscles when they reached
the
Eight or ten lumps descended each leg during the fifth week.
About the sixth week several small boils began to gather on
the insteps of both feet, from which a large quantity of matter
was discharged. As soon as the discharge had ceased I felt
very great ease, and in a week or two wa-s quite free from pain.
I took the bath till Christmas, gradually reducing the numbers
from six to one bath per week. I still frequent the bath, and
have enjoyed very good health up to the present time, and
firmly believe that the bath was the means of saving my life.
I remain, Sir,
D.V., continue
its
use while
I live.
Construction of a Bath.
CORRESPONDENCE.
My
dear
Sir,
have
to
Worthing, November
announce
to
3,
1863.
in
made in hospitals,
the land.
I have just returned from a visit to the Lunatic
Asylum of
for
about a year.
low
temperature,
cellars.
went to
repulsive
it
filth,
in operation
expecting to find
and
unventilated
temperature of 180
Dr.
indeed,
Robertson,
brick flues
iron.
Construction of a Bath.
repairs,
me, he
for
319
who
own
a builder
offered,
at his
approved
Dr. Robertson
of.
was glad
to
process.
To
element
to himself.
so
is
much
(taking as
is
in
my
the
be more than
my
constructed.
effects
whilst
Dr. Robertson
and
raised as to
point of
before his
partially introduced;
been
temperature
doubled
and
Having expe-
to the
mention
injury arising
made
still
heat.
From
this it
The same
illusion
making
may
to attribute
in the
What
taking
it
once a week
320
Construction of a
have been
left
should
this, I
Bath
which he had
to
I begged of
to report.
him
not
day
being exposed to
it
ten minutes, so as to
For the
structed,
he
present,
of 200
at a heat
for periods
make up one
and
the patient
five to
hour.
until his
varying from
new Bath
more heat;
is
con-
but, at all
I spent at
is
Hay-
unmeaning
********
men.
In reference
to this
malady (Bright's
Disease), I
may
The
patient
had been
D. Uequhart.
Sir
John
Fife,
for Invalids.
321
My
dear
It
Sir,
21, 1863.
is
on the
we only have
that
the institution in
of
am
own might
and
be of great
observations on the
in
its use,
infancy,
proper application.
its
its
symptoms of apoplexy
or paralysis
blood
symptoms occurring
diphtheria
in
the
convalescence
following
and expecting
cause,
in
mode of treatment.
Faithfully yours,
John Fife.
January
My
dear
Sir,
to
you take
on him.
13, 1864.
in
your
letter of
Novem-
my hot closet, or
rather
sit
effect
down with
Y
the
Construction of a
322
Bath
means
used,
and the
effects
be in your power
shall
it
with certainty
although I
am
in the Infirmary.
I enclose a plan of
mylet
us call
Sweating Closet
it
There
is
furnace
steps,
also a tank, to
prevent splashing.
in
it
hot, tepid, or
The water
a rock.
is
The water
in the tank
is
may
be
enough
an agreeable opera-
Bath has
to be
The
a
floor is in
cement.
common laundry
smoke
across
it.
There
There are no
From
flues.
stove,
is
no plate
glass,
let into
but only a
window.
I use coke instead of coal, so as to keep the pipes
clean, that the heat
may
is
used,
for Invalids.
even for lighting the
323
fire.
to 230, night
consumed
fuel
is
will
required
for
fire.
the other.
tion
more
is
perfect,
the
bad air
it
comes in
its
consumed, and
is
The
heat enormous.
the saving of
fresh
air
being
passage downwards
bather to breathe.
so that
when
for the
a high
convenience
temperature
There
perfect
open
is
is
them^
air.
no
command
difficulty
of the circulation.
The
suction being
every point.
The command
I
am
of the
admission of
An invalid
is
closed, the
stopped.
is
The
Construction of a
324
Bath
There
can be obtained.
is
The
space
suffi-
the basin
understands.
of a full stream.
be
free, so as to
It
is
2 5 inches
diameter.
In stating the
ordinary
fire, it
cost
to
than
half.
Therefore, such a
fire
cost
more
a day.
it
out.
managed
retained.
in this way,
fireplaces
is
other
and
24 of heat
which I
hand the
am
irrespective
at present treating.
realized
On
the
from the
for Invalids.
secure them, must have
it
325
roof, so as to
be able
to
have
it
and
I found that
my Bath
it
This
wash.
closet,
with
all
37.
my own
making
This
use.
is
themselves
This
is,
There
built.
to
is still
come nearer
for invalids.
This Bath
is
It
was made
of a lady : nevertheless,
or the
I
it
come back
* Lady
with us,
moment
to it after absence
Mary W. Montagu
says,
When
women
as of no
more
Construction of a Bath
326
it is
lite getting
on the back of a
You come
moment and at
all
temperatures.
in not heated,
when
may
it
stand at 120
you go
you dress in
it
My
in the morning.
requiring
it
regular practice,
to bed, dressing
suffice to
and undressing
You
object, the
waste of time
cold of winter.
is
exercise.
One wintry
If time
is
its
there was
found
an
thus no objection.
me
up
there.
sleet,
when not
health,
heat of
and on going
come out
So, also,
it
particularly agreeable.
so I looked at the
minutes in
furnishing a
alternately.
datum
line,
five
for Invalids.
327
Bath invigorated
as I
Sussex Downs.
When
am
dis-
believed.
must appear
so even to those
and
this is
why
I com-
yourself.
A medical man
of this place,
who
Ilammam
much
better.
letter to the
in
(as
room
Now
and transmitted
caloric.
About
was dying.
He
Hammam,
He was
had become
and
sleep.
me
Mr. Johnson,
all
J28
and in spite of
would
thought
he being in
of
affording
I
so.
knew
This
was
The medical man
the heat in Jermyn Street
that the Bath
relief.
that
went up
day long.
it all
appear to be conclusive
incapable
was
it,
was not
radiating.
if
was
fulfilled to
the letter.
On
This promise
resume work.
He
the bath at
6,
remained there
11,
till
is
slept
The heat
is
a Liebig
is
radiating.
ness about
it
to
work out
heat.
The rapid
this problem,
2.
and then
The thermometer
is
It
There
lacks.
is
is
is
a liveli-
You
are
to transmitted
to flat beer.*
circulation of air.
radiation.
degrees higher.
329
The extreme
This
dryness.
obtained by the
is
is
very
great care in
little
evaporation
and
line, so
finally,
by
whatever
Of
by
Also by carrying
is
of a hi<jh temperature.
is
is
When
lutely
disease.
is
abso-
be, as it were, a
The
practice of the
Bath
imperceptible.
wide
field
of
observation
is
fluctuations.
can be
You may
just as a sailor
is
warned of
a hurricane
by the baro-
330
The
make
only
but the
ward
off
is
With vapour
tion.
in the chamber,
an atmosphere
is
is
fevers
The
flourish.
electrical
own
is so
misunderstood
cannot
unless
new
all
sensations on a dry
This point
be
We
see,
know
it is
sure- to
who
refuse to accept
to say in
magnet
is
was
300.
When,
that
in one of the
Midland
counties,
Long
filled
it,
it
an old working
with water into
The moisture
had supplied
it.
The
difficulty of
loss
is
very
reflect for
be drawn
331
lb.
it
ninety
is
fold, that
This amounts to
an hour.
obtained
circulation.
accuracy
must
first
is
Also the
be conveyed
was used, as
it
hundredweight.
of heat
by
degrees,
Then,
to as-
in sufficient
between the
levels,
walls)
may
thermometer.
discrimination
there
is
The
difference in level of
When
is
still
radiating caloric
more
difficult,
is
employed, the
especially as here
and theapparentheat.
Maladies detected
33 1
On
the
first
spiration, the
couch where I
per-
To
was hung up in
5 oz.
lb.
In
1 lb. 5 oz.
amount of
Bath double,
the
five
so as to represent the
In
five
minutes
Thus
to 21 oz., independently of
In
my
percolation
but
it
much
to set
down 2
oz.
more than
it
five or ten
is
impossible to maintain
lb.,
it
for
minutes at a time.
to
amount
to
But
sweated
it
Such an operation
this
Bath
to
be the
by the Smell.
233
physicians
now apply
disease
the
but
it
often allow
it
stands to reason
we should
that
it.
I have further
satisfied
experience
daily
this
whole body,
employ
own way
No
amount of
that
the
rivers, at
are
currents
we
see
and
currents on
constantly
streams and
in
that
themselves, as
more
at
the
fingers
subject to
The Romans
toes.
us,
it
and
With
is,
where
especially
but while
more
suffered
The
light
feet of the
and
Were
(urea,
Romans were
as
much exposed
to the
&c),
relief
but relief
au hour, or even in
five
is
often afforded
minutes
Maladies detected
334
is
It
not inodorous.
endowed
is
sawn
At
fir
enough
to detect
it,
resembling fresh-
as
boards.
the
common
be inodorous in
may
also
and
yet,
come out
breath.
(I
am
a few hours
in the feet
and the
ago.)
Half
an hour
later,
and
after
of gout
may have
of herpes
strong in the
and shoulders.
feet,
legs,
The smell
thighs, breast,
Half an hour
later,
and
after
if
Now
this
having
may have
result
could
The
time.
result
itself.
we would come
health.
to the
an infant,
out,
light, continuous,
and refreshing,
by the Smell.
lasting
for
change of
335
unaccompanied hy any
position.
when
tell
without
it, it
sea
at
would be
no guide.
or
It
By means
varieties
state,
all
the
and notes
feels his
way
in the
darkest night.
Nor
is
moment of
future
is
what
is,
time.
It will tell
It
what
is
endowed
to
is
certainty.
come
The
by being anticipated
in
the mind,
a fantastic notion,
wise, staid,
wrist, to
man
within.
Still
more
fantastic
will
appear
when the
Maladies detected
336
own
nose, will
have
to
be accompanied by a child to
This
is
him
of his state.
my discoveries,
regard to the
effect of
and, like
by chance.
pure heat on
In
had
disease, I
ment.
Again
caloric.
human
distinguishing
its
organs,
be capable
if
of
it.
result.
came about
if
the eye,
I have
events encouraging.
But what
who has
is
most
so, is
that
as bath-man.
There
is
three years,
Hundreds
assert.
Hammam,
in
incredulity
with
received,
men,
and
have
London.
which
to
what
Conscious,
such
however,
statement
will quote
now
the
be
by medical
by the Smell.
tion
its
237
announcement before-
hand.
mam.
Ilam-
members
together,
of both
and
suffering,
said he
He
complained of great
and
who was
told
than two
feet,
pointing, as
turning
Some
him
He
ill.
rest.
passed,
General
Houses.
for a
at the
any one
it
to pick out
in
the circle
at General
faces.
Hammam.
attack of gout
laid his
linger
the stomach; he
to
He
as before.
him
to
find
pointed
his
the part.
He
finger at the
smelt
him
him
I then told
all
over,
and
Huntley's
Maladies detected
33 8
I stopped
"I
him there,
will tell
saying,
I called
the boy, and pointing out Mr. Copping, said, " Tell
he
if
he
is ill,
what
is
suffers."
answered, "
He
is ill
but
it is
me
I don't
different.
know
familar)
is
it,
and
is
it
it is
very
the
is
very spot
!"
unprepared.
by
its
name.
as yet
unknown
at least
my
medical man.
the infancy of
was stopped
as I
matters.
these
in a month.
I was
still
its
phases (laying
is,
its
consequent
by the Smell.
The
depression."
on the
case, further
339
other,
now
The boy
on whose nose I
peculiar smell,
relied,
and
had learnt
to give to
at
it
to discriminate the
The two
a name.
With
work.
myself as
that
is,
as six
smell
if
the
and a
lias
with
dealt
half,
Bath
for hours, as
much
disappeared.
much
as
its
approach.
exceptions.
2v
On
twenty-four hours.
symptoms had
still
On
the third
my
into
foot
J40
days.
From
this
you
but of
life also,
value
little
informed
if I
me
see
'will
my
by heat
had
to
to wait until
my own
sensations
of a supervening malady.
I have for
the grounds
which
it
inordinate as
letter,
the
is
as I do, I
can always
the heat,
in
tell
I can
an approximate way,
to
When,
it.
upon
Proceeding there-
had
to
sum
Up
been
to this
to
me
chamber
at 230.
a puzzle.
No
medical
man
with
whom
this opinion
being
The
Law
of Absorption.
341
I
had refused
to
contents of fluids
unaltered in volume.
tion,
it
meant
fluids.
now appeared
of absorption,
viz.,
to
me
that
it
absorbing
it
at a
who
fluid at
the
same
vessels.
Otherwise,
absorption
indeed,
would
wanting.
At
first
The
itself.
term
may
tion,
and occupy
space.
When
is
and
finite streams,
for,
Law
The
J42
of Absorption.
finding,
If these
particles.
Excuse
more
my
howeyer,
this case,
to
me
it is
ducement
Had
to listen.
in myself, not
In every
line I
against yourself.
It is
what I know of
the
In
to you.
want
to constrain
did
so, it is
If you
who would be
by you,
must
at once
and the
public.
After
all, it
weak
would
(look at
with the
Irish
still exist.
A man
of
The
were attached
tore)
For
250.
heat
of Absorption.
to infirmaries,
Sir Joseph
in
343
to
is
Sweating
For
Law
Room
tiie
roof.
will
start
left
up
behind.
if it
The process
in unheard-of places,
its
and
scoffers, will
first
pioneers
whom they
at present revile.
Not only
at Newcastle
is
own hands
Com-
position superinducing
slumber at times.
I have
had
for
some time
desire to submit to
in
my mind
is,
endowed with a
a plan which I
a
Consumptive
perfect Bath,
to
Proposals for a
344
my
visit
might
be added; but I came away, not with the desire that this
should be effected, but with a far different one. It became
my
I should
is
on philanthropic grounds
for
it
sick
their
who
relatives
The pecuniary
its
but the
to Montpelier
results of the
and
Hammam
to
in
Madeira.
London, and
In a recent
letter,
since
Baths have
is,
We
But what
is
benefit,
they
dowed
for
at
least,
of the
working
Consumption Hospital.
What we have
classes ?
to the
345
accomplished
is
but a sample.
national need,
would do the
as
D. Urquhart.
P.S.
I find I
cited cases of
of
have omitted
(Extract.)
sir
7'
Ftbrunnj
14, 1864.
me.
It
But
if
seems
me
let
me
know.
may make
a better
qualified
and
24-6
pupil of Dr.
W.
Stokes informs
me
that.,
in his course of
that
is,
Introduction
the
Bath
as a
remedy.
their causes.
"We
are,
however,
we have entered on
my
garding
Lunatic Asylums.
348
The
temperature at which
my
me
my practice
Another
here.
expect,
my
might
I now as often
you have often spoken of, of 150
use the bath at 170 as at 150, and I am slowly
and
feeling my way to your temperature of 200
I have no manner of doubt that, until I arrive at the
use of these higher temperatures, I am not in a position
test
to
accomplish
I find that
now be borne by
flues.
am
length, and
how much
of the bath
As
the
I,
in the
direct radiation
peratures can
in
am
also
also gradually
using the
now
got to an hour's
I fully realize
how
little I
know
of
its
operations.
the treatment
As
yet
we have no
is
specific
in
Lnnatic Asylums.
of
is
ague
and
I for
349
Insanity
these
nical
functional disorders,
nutrition of the
of the catamenia,
is
The
brain,
and
the skin,
circulation,
and thus
to the
and the
will
such a result
of remedies
brain.
that
will,
through
its
it
symptoms
My
if
not cure,
relief of the
Lunatic Asylums.
350
My
cholia,
flesh.
I have a record of
strength and
cases
its earlier
stage, a great
improvement both of
symptoms
aside, I
the
ills
great. I
young
its
value in reducing
girls cured,
who
still
be
last
for
less
and destructive.
He was much
reduced in health,
urine of a
Lunatic Asylums.
worse, and after he
351
I sent
him
result
of a month's
in the asylum,
The
man
is
seeing
apparently convalescent.
him here
at his
011
work
You
will
remember
as a carpenter.
The
is
means of washing,
ment.
enough
Were
for the
the
bath at Ilayward's
Heath
at
a small cost,
I'M
as
large
it is
not.
an experi-
D. Urquhart, Esq.
Lunatic Asylums.
352
success that
Lunatic Asylums.
353
COLNEY HATCH.
Other asylums are now following the example of
and Ireland. I subjoin an extract from
those in Sussex
a letter which I addressed to the medical superintendent of the asylum at Colney Hatch, bearing on the
peculiar adaptation of the
may
Bath
to such establishments.
Government
to vessels
afloat.*
army may be
Rome
of
and
British
those
Mithridates.
23rd May.
Deab
Sib,
Since
been engaged
the purposes of your
leisure
Monday
in
at every interval of
last I have
planning an adaptation of the bath to
The
bath,
but, in addition,
Indian temperature.
*
to
AA
Lunatic Asylums.
j 54
carried
Mr.
so as to be able
morrow.
I consider the advantages so self-evident, that no words are
required
still
urge, as these
on the point
The plan
originally submitted to
diture of 300.
The present
For
model
will
you
this
is
for 500.
three kingdoms.
You
will
You
You
patients.
You
will
It
is
With
respect to
insanity,
it
is
even already
consideration, nor
escape from the necessity of a trial in a more or less efficient
its
milliner.
Such an
and care.
edifice
Hammam
cost,
and labour,
the
in Jermyn-street,
Turks is held
to
Lunatic Asylums.
During the
355
excess of expenditure.
You will
from
improbus uritur
patients' tame,
till
eight
at
a'stu."
you can pass 700 pad. nta through the operation of the
For mere washing you can pass them through it
rate of 250 an hour.
facility),
bath dady.
at the
The charge
exceed
Is. 6d.
per diem.
I will
is
Lunatic Asylums.
356
and meanest construction, yet they expressed them" The bath became a species of Elysium,
where ache and pain vanished as if by magic."
The whole will be arranged panoptically, so that a superin-
paltriest
ment, watch every patient. With the resources of your establishment, the whole may be completed in four weeks.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient
Servant,
D. Ueqxthaet.
E. Sheppabd, Esq.,
M.D.
Heat- Rays,
Sun-Rays,
Electricity,
is
Stephenson.
the air or in
bodies as
first
step he
field
it
The ray
it.
is
its
is
Heat discharged in
is,
the heat
is
this fashion is
treated as rays,
of inquiry opens.
nature, but from
discharged just as
that
to ascertain in
motion.
is
we have
said
and
is
to
to
deal.
radiate;
thereby
assi-
But the rays of heat become at a certain point illuminated, and pass into light just as the dark metal
The identifrom which they flash becomes luminous.
light
differ
and
only in
Heat
complete.
fication is
degree.
358
When
and heat
is
to
me by my
life
in
and being
as it
were an
artillery
power
sweeping space,
it
We
These
The
light
is lost.
They must,
decomposed
negative
that
is,
and positive
reflected,
therefore, be transformed
that
If so, they
must
and Vital Power.
Electricity,
human body
transfer to this
359
Thus, while transmitted heat raises only the temperature of the body,
said, "
No man
points,
can treat
the experiments of
Professor Tyndall."
Expecting
life.
to elicit
vegetation and
may
" I
ments as to
its effect
Now
bear
in mind,
and
my
I
may
some
* In another
dry over moist
as practii'
letter
he says
air is,
" The
scientific
Heat-Rays, Sun-Rays,
j6o
grounds for the results which I have gropingly obtained, I call on all those whose duty it is to find the
that is, medical men to
best means of meeting disease
study
it
power, of using
relief of his
it
own
familiarly,
down
and of applying
it
this
to the
to the molecular
precisely that
This
is
"
a representative case
grows and
flourishes
animal life.
Electricity,
wound up
in the
animal
it
j6i
runs down.
And
moves a
clock's
hands
is
as
derived from
the
news of
is
it
the animal
cattle
upon
He
a thousand hills.
the
he springs
in
He
forms the
His
lilies
fleetness
and hews it
and which wields the axe
being one and the same. The clover sprouts and blossoms, and
The sua
the scythe of the mower swinges, by the same force.
he rolls the iron he rivets the
digs the ore from our mines
plates he boils the water; he draws the train. He not only grows
There
the cotton, but he spins the fibre and weaves the web.
he
eagle,
is
not a
that
is
world
is
362
energy
comes
to us as heat
and between
his entrance
poured,
the
in
and departure
They are
all special
infinitude."*
or
value to any
human heing
is
but to
use the sun, or any other agent, for the cure of your
life, is
value.
ills
We have already on
that the most recent
several occasions
scientific
had
discoveries
remark
had been
to
anticipated
traditions
We have thus
common
speech
empyrean atmo-
we breathe. Now
fifth to
the
number
that
433.
and Vital Power.
Electricity,
is,
and the
motion,
The
fifth is this
now
3^3
rediscovered.
religious
Hindus have
as
classified these
commencing
either.
Air.
Fire.
Water.
Earth.
Sound.
Sound
Sound
Touch
Form.
Sound
Touch
Sound
Touch
Touch.
Form
Form
Savour.
Savour
Odour.
prefix d, towards,
On
this
point, as in
so
many
we have
others,
in
adjuration placed
by iEschylus
in the
mouth
of Pro-
metheus.
He
is
Air.
3.
Water.
4.
Earth.
5.
as wonderful
1.
iEther.
various ways.
It is to the
Heat-Rays, Sun-Rays,
364
etc.
To render the
application
when
nation, suffer
* Tn
8<ot
oifljjp
Kal top
Trav6Trri\v
"16"<70e fi
"
divine iEther,
kvk\ov
tjXiqv
re
yrj,
Ka\a.
Part
II.
On
Horses
and
Cattle.
Second
The
Thk
of the bath
use
Part.
restricted hitherto to
for
has
cattle
the training
been
almost
race-course.
The results suffice to establish a claim
on the attention of the farmer, the breeder, and the
landlord.
If,
caro of so
many and
such able
is
must be
for
working
If
cattle
so,
unquestionably the
It is
now
cite
The Bath
368
Farm.
in the
out independently.
The
of
sight
is
to,
superadded
defective
construction.
and then they say, " Anything above 130 is injurious." Lord Kinnaird has got
heat, and has dared to use it.
His thermometer ranges
up to 212, and consequently he can stop disease at
once if acute, and more speedily relieve it if chronic.
" In Lord Kinnaird's bath for cattle, there having been
no trouble either with patients or medical men, the
necessity for high temperature for the cure of grave
disorders has been ascertained.
The words of a report
in the
'
heats,
The
heat re-
up
to 200 to
212
boiling point, in
In respect
recent
number
4, 1864),
a less
effect
"What
is
wanted
bath."
is
is
attention, or the
(June
Turkish
more.
case
to
At
fact.
"a
wanted
cold," ripening
to relieve nature
into
and
pleuro-pneumonia,
baffle disease,
in other
If his attention
he will
is
is
he will of
profitable,
fuel
Hammam.
and
The Bath
in the
Farm.
369
any
he
may
spot, for
desire.
Professor Gamgee, in either the April or May number of the " Veterinary Review," estimates the annual
loss of cattle in Great Britain from pleuro-pneumonia
alone at 6,000,000.
for
ought not to die of natural or, more properly speaking unnatural death.
If they die, it is through mis-
farm,
loss incurred is
From
attached to neglect.
it
it.
It
is
not,
owe
the communication
of as yet unpublished
appended report
surgeon
is
returns of
" The Turkish Bath, not only as a medicinal agent, but also as
a preventive of disease, deserves consideration, and wo cannot
help thinking the hot-air chamber is almost as necessary an adjunct to.the extensive stock-keeper as to the veterinary surgeon,
and for the simple reason, that in it -we have an agent which
exerts
B B
at
The Bath
2JO
in the
Farm.
any
in the blood,
it
of it."
Upon such
years,
cent,
amount but
The saving
do recover,
and can scarcely be placed at less than twice the
amount of value of mere life preserved. We may
estimate the saving on farm stock at ten per cent.,
independently of veterinary charges, which are estimated by Alderman Mechi at sixpence per acre.
Next comes the increase of animal power, whether as
as in those that
Under
this
head we
may
farm
stock, giving us
amount
of live
animals.
Were
agriculturists
The Bath
in the
Farm.
371
many
BATHA WARNING
On Wednesday last
the coachman hearing a disturbance in the bath, in which thoro was a horse, opened the door.
The animal showed great uneasiness, and with difficulty was
got out, on which ho was seized with frightful convulsions,
Sir,
threw himself down in the stall and stable, and in this way
rolling himsolf over and over, made his way into the yard,
where he was secured, and prevented from destroying himself,
A cow
point, and that it should be hermetically sealed below.
had been in the bath some days before for a much longer time
without injury, probably in consequence of carrying her head
lower. The accident my prove a warning against such overThis form of bath, combining so much economy
sight in future.
both in structure and fuel, is at the same time so much
The Bath
372
The
in the
Farm.
last
it
may be
appendage
to every
farm
nary establishment.
The bath commends
several grounds
itself to
1.
2.
3.
draught.
4.
5.
6. Collateral
advantages
first tried,
These
ciations.
are
still
more
results,
effects
efficacious, that it
of turning a loose
10s.
for
sheet-iron pipes.
Your obedient
Servant,
B. Pooee.
The Bath
obtainable
by heat:
Farm.
in the
The
power.
373
had
in the proprietor
is
not
radiating.
By
we have
four
appearance of the
first
symptoms.
Now
this result is
official
returns
:*
1859
'3.j,3G8,209
18t>3
29,997,546
Decrease
5,370,713
loss in casualties
average
loss,
Ireland
and
sickness, the
on
60 that in
had the bath been general in Ireunder this head alone would
for 1803.
Ireland,"
374
The Bath
in the
Farm.
so that, reasoning
annum.
The farmer would doubtless not be influenced by
general considerations he would look to his own farm,
and would have to view the matter in this shape " My
stock amounts to 500.
Is it worth my while to incur
an outlay of 5, and a yearly charge of .10, to insure
against loss, and to increase its productiveness,
it
together amounting to from ten to fourteen per cent. ?"
"Why should not every farm of 200 acres adopt this
precaution ? When the Turks adopted the bath, they
made it a rule that no habitation should be placed at a
greater distance from a bath than three miles. Yet
:
by
men
The Bath
in the
Farm.
37 5
TRAINING OF HORSES.
In the
first
Dialogue, page
1,
it
and wind.
To those passages the reader is referred.
The proper treatment for a horse is the proper treatment for a man, and is to be found in the educational
maxims of ancient times, viz., to accustom the body to
bear the extremes of heat and cold, and to endure pri-
He
is
im-
phiu Arab.
The Bath
376
It
is,
in
the
Farm.
muffling.
artificial
climate
for
him
certain period
to his native
of the
day,
and of
mainder of it.
We have experienced to the fullest extent the benefits
of this operation in man, even to the cure of the most
hopeless and inveterate disorders.
But we should
gravely err if we placed, in this respect, the man and
the horse on the same footing. The facility of acting
on the horse is much greater in consequence of his
volume relatively to that of man.
A large portion of the food is expended on the
production of animal heat.
is
size of the
its
bulk,
inhabit the
snow.*
has so
It
is
is
enabled to
much
regions of Tartary, or the hot ones of Persia, Mesopotamia, the Nedjd, or the African deserts, he is severally
The Bath
Bath
there/ore to the
look
Farm.
in the
211
as capable of furnishing a
For
however,
this end,
it is
From
colt.
the
period of growth,
moment
it
and restored to the arctic zone, without protecthe aim being to fortify the muscle,
develop the frame, and brace the nervous power by
balancing the double and apparently opposing agencies
of cohi and heat in a word, using the elements at once
which separately are afforded by the Plateau of Pamer,
or the Roof of the "World,* and the plains of the Sahara
torrid,
tion or covering
Were any
What
"We
instead
food
of uncertain
we
give
protect
him
him
against
chiefly,
entirely destitute."
is
As
to
first
the third
we have
own
laid
down
for
of clearing the
We
Bam
Duniah.
bodies.
"
Roof of the World
the Bath
378
Farm.
in the
to inflict
points.
Any
one
may
find in
its
that
of
common and
injurious habits.
Now, the
which
by the blood of
particles,
matter.
The
cuticle is
by
is
carried
friction.
In the
same manner corns and bunions are produced, pressure
extent, this
is
The skin
of the horse
is
far
its
amount of
defence.
cuticle
is
more
delicate
than that
In his natural
state,
is
the small
carried off
by
The Bath
Farm.
in the
379
by inventing
of quasi-leprosy
when we
our stupidity
we
exclaim, "
clear
the
How clever we
from
a
its
evidence of
are to have
where an animal is expected to gallop twelve or fourteeen miles without rein being drawn, it is necessary to
put it through careful training, and especially to work
off
the fat.
and the
and
test of
prime condition
is
is
daily sweated
The
taste
determines
judged of by collecting a
little of the secretion between the thumb and forefinger, which are then held up to the light and slowly
the former.
separated,
The
when
latter is
viscidity
appears
in
threads
long
Burton
is
letter
from Captain
The Bath
380
the
in
Farm.
el-Kader.
from the
earliest essay
Xenophon,
monographs of General Daumas and AbdThe only exception that I have to make are
with which I
down
am
literature,
acquainted,
i.e.,
that of
in the
more than a
selves
to
collection of materials
the
barrenness by perversion,
animal in disease
all
science in regard to
for his
management
the
horse
used.
relieved from
are
of therapeutic
by
trainers.
Men
unqualified
by
with respect
scientific acquire-
is
cleansed
The Bath
"
in the
Farm.
381
increased,
tion,
now
believe
may
Let anybody,
382
The Bath
in the
Farm.
who
and I maintain
beneficially,
coat
The Bath
in the
Farm.
3$ 3
inclusive,
They
So long, how-
they were
endowed with an under-covering of down or fur,* which
has disappeared as they have spread over lower and more
genial districts.
These have all attained to greater
development in hot countries, showing that heat (not
that of the close stable and byre) is beneficial for them.
Cats and dogs are on the Himalaya also furnished
ever, as
seats,
Barn-yard fowls of
all
* IIouco
or
Una
is
Una gori,
of the
The same
Himalaya
is
the
Undea
name
of the
The goats of
and alpaca Andes.
wool mountain retain tho under-down.
Angora
name
The Bath
384
in the
THE
Farm.
PIG.
and
man
whenever
it
is
It is very cleanly
by
It
instinct,
is
very.
They
feel
and rubbing
tion, it has
as
By
domestica-
flesh,
to a
longer.
t
On
to impossible
They
bay in
their lair.
The Bath
The
in the
to
3S5
Farm.
man
than those of
is
all
put at once
other
;
but
the sweetening of its flesh, the facilitating of the formation of that flesh, the restoration of its dimensions,
and
prolific
an estimate
may
is
con-
which might be
filled
c c
The Bath
386
in the
Farm.
March
Rous.
26th, 1863).
sums
of
money
to the proprietors
The Bath
in
the
Farm.
387
" Of all animals in the world there are none better endowed
by nature to endure the vicissitudes of climate than a horse.
From the burning deserts of Arabia to the coldest regions of
Europe, Asia, and America, they enjoy the most perfect health
and vigour. Why are we, then, to treat them in this temperate
clime like exotic plants P If, from the day a foal is dropped, he
is never shut up with his dam in a close hovel, except during a
severe frost
if the same practice be adopted after he is weaned
;
he
is
cold winds.
"
When
stablo,
is
removed
to a well-built,
warm
during his days of liberty, in tho opon air, rolling on tho wet
grass,
if this mode of life agreo with him, and added daily to
The Bath
388
in the
Farm.
gencies
nature
of feverish thirst,
may
men
to
it is
in direct
run or to
a large draught."
fight,
This
The Bath
Farm.
in the
389
My
SCRIVEN, ESQ.
J. E.
The
batli
has
t\vil\
The
a corn
kiln.
Here are
all
above
it
is
nine feet
and as
descriptions of grain, and sucii
floor
is
tiled,
A similar
build-
all,
The
cost per
annum
is
for
30.
washing, attendant'*
fuel,
The
tire is
never out.
to
have
how
In a report
to the
Men
Women
19
-j
Horses
Figs
Dogs
25
60
At
this time I
had no sheep.
The Bath
2<)0
Water, cold
Farm.
180 gallons
80
25 stone
140 Fahr.
hot
Scotch coal
in the
Average temperature
Cure
after cure
having been
hood, under
my
was
effected, the
want was
instructions.
The
first
horse
He recovered
shoulder, or was licking my hand.
from a bad strain in the loins. Weeks after he recognised me on entering his stable, and licked my hand.
my
is
pigs, all
pleasure.
At
first it
it
would be dangerous
The Bath
to
put a dog
in the
Farm.
391
in, as
go mad.
My
first
matism.
sees
case
to,
and
lies
down
in the
hottest corner.
heads
I.
the
five
following
Treatment of
disease.
the
effects of exposure,
and
approaching disease.
power
III. Increase of
in flesh, milk,
and
for labour
and productiveness
offspring.
V. Benefit
to the
farm servants.
swellings, distemper
jaundice in dogs,
and
mange
pigs, sturdy
in
in horses
in
sheep,
head of calves.
Here
would
call attention to
My
by which heat of a
so
much
Still,
The Bath
392
in the
Farm.
farm
and
stock.
Horses.
The
produce relief;
entering
is
very unusual.
far
She was helped into the bath immeand in three days was at her usual work. A
fine foal was born in due time.
An entire horse belonging to a neighbour becomgreat difficulty.
diately,
dressing,
he
so certain, that
now.
The import of
my
blished throughout
England
not
as to
working
horses.
as to
It
appears to
The Bath
Cows.
per
If only
this subject
in
Farm.
the
demands the
293
one disease
distem-
in cattle
but, if neglected, hardly loss fatal, the bath has been found a
'perfect
cure.'
can be erected and carried on for a comone that, we think, would repay large
expend."
It
On
beginning of au attack,
cows back
Heat
the
fourth
day
in the skin,
and
got over
The Bath
J94
in the
Farm.
thought
shampooing.
I have never had a fully developed case of " hlack
quarter " since the bath has been built. Before that, I
by this disorder.
In swelling of the head in calves, we have found it
most effectual.
Sheep. Two cases are worthy of record. One was
When
150 to 180
down seemed
lying
several
flock, rapidly
The second
brain)
the
diseases.
put on
a
is
was
left
there
when turned
(water on the
flesh.
most intractable,
To say
He
quite happy.
a sheep has
if
not
it, is
to
incurable,
condemn
it
of all
to the
knife.
ing
its food.
It
was
let in,
when
it
men
of
my
flock,
Firmly convinced
bath in disease of
as
my
cattle,
herd
is
he urged
me
not to
make the
The Bath
the
in
Farm.
29
On
and decisive
brood sows.
results than
And
till
I have
had no
my
may
is
spots.
When
old, the
litter.
He
till
they
The
first
one of a
in, for
litter
of fatting
He weighed
hogs.
Dogs.
litter,
one
litter.
after distemper.
door,
and scraped
at
it.
He was
afterwards.
setter that
had
distemper was
The Bath
2gS
sent
to
me
the
in
Farm.
He
for treatment.
recovered condition
was quite
restored.
The development
is
His scent
of the
pamphlet,
"Consumption arrested
by
the
Turkish
bath."
IT. Protection against
approaching Disease.
the
Effects of Exposure,
In reference to
this branch,
fessor
safest,
dairy-
"As
and
Pro-
been suggested,
if
only as
Page 237.
is
undoubtedly a general
impor-
man
or animals.
"Viewing the
subject as a veterinary, I
we have
unhesita-
most effective
diaphoretic, the most active depurant, and the most
efficient means of producing healthy reaction that we
have yet had at our disposal. It is a great addition to
our therapeutic means. We needed a satisfactory means
tingly say that
in heat the
The Bath
in the
Farm.
397
we have
it."
Page 244.
tional
disturbance
organs
of the
skin,
among
dairy-stock, particularly in
at
command
animal in on the
first
The horse-dealer
if
the
rule
symptom
of sickness.
answered
''There
is
You
season.
Whenever
put
in,
are
The top
the place.
in
off.
will not
they
ami
il
always
hear a conrjh
severely
in the
worked, or
On
reminded
to
me
we had
my
He
sent four
I have thought
it
better
The Bath
398
in the
Farm.
them standing
very-
much exposed. On
men and horses in at once. The men dried their clothes,
and went home refreshed and warm. The severity of
the day had no effect upon either men or horses.
When we consider the number of such days in the
their return late at night, he put the
in
ness,
Offspring.
could give
numerous
cases of
that
We
as well as
when
in her prime.
The
results
mani-
upon them.
of a foal from a
mare I
in due course,
three years.
The
result
foal obtained
The Bath
in
Farm.
the
399
amongst
men
it
now most
been
has
it
in
fully
an extraordinary
From
being improved,
animal
when
its
power when
alive.
They became
quite free
and
to
measure the
results.
But equal
results,
labour.
When
of food, but a
no experience to report in this respect, my attenhaving been but recently called to the subject but
the grounds are so evident, and the results obtained in
women so striking, that there remains no doubt on my
I have
tion
mind
Farm.
In
fall
our
short
damp
The Bath
400
in the
Farm.
Every one familiar with the ordinary mode of kilndrying grain, knows the danger of producing diabetes
in horses, arising from the admission to the grain of
on in pure
We
is
carried
air,
lose
flax seed,
So
much
we might be
that
much
stuff.
it is
carried on in
is
am happy
to
earlier.
farm
office into
me
for instruction
my
how
a bath.
The Bath
the drying
room
in the
at night
is
Farm.
401
dried by morning.
Incidental to breaking in
their shoulders
young
horses, I
have found
much more
importance.
V. Farm Servants.
farm labourers
is
no small matter.
off
Improvement
results in
years ago,
in indigestion
is
His
first
few
visits
were made
in
a tart.
D D
The Bath
402
Farm.
in the
is
now
in
whom
I recognised
A case of
my
typhus fever
dropsical patient.
is illustrative
of the necessity
worse.
He became
nearly incoherent.
few days
purified
effects
coat,
work
when
in four days.
The Bath
in the
Farm.
403
"In
Turf
is
burnt on the
floor, till
of the
the county
or a dozen of them.
hive.
me
it for
it
is
clear; then
a time.
When
swept
for it.
There was 1 man
and he built one for himThese
self, and brought water through it in pipes.
houses were first made by the ancient Afilesiana, long
before your bath was thought of."
This rude form of bath, now only found among
the mountains and islands, must have existed long
water
is led,
before the
Eomans
their bath,
Roman
conquerors
to
preserve
What
is
The Bath
404
in the
Farm.
to, at
results, alike as
to
reminded
me
of a
practice
of former years,
It
when
so
much vigour
throwing
off
my
it by
and taking to the hammer and
anvil.
his horses
allowing
but two feeds and some only one feed a day.
Appendix.
No.
i.
I was
first
to health of
led to reflect
urged
me
much
At
experience, strongly
by taking, what he
neighbouring pine
forest.
called,
He was
in
eccentricity
much
benefit.
Appendix.
406
as
original
mode
When
that
my
my
contact
than four
trials
On
country.
my
return to this
and
results
am
easily affected
by the sun
the consequence
when
I found,
even a portion of
my
clothing, I instantly
The
not heat,
and was
fact.
Genial warmth,
able.
to,
I reversed the
body
is
is
very agree-
felt.
gentle
under the
but I noticed, on covering any portion of it with
it
to feel cool
Appendix.
407
hour
to
an hour and a
half,
on
different occasions,
and
First, pricking
and itching
all
At
which became sore and manifested all the appearwhich, on examination, it was
To describe my
declared to be by a medical man.
sensations plainly, I felt as if I were sitting in an ant's
skin,
ances of nettlerash,
nest.
But
days.
make
when
trial
symptoms
I applied no remedy.
of sunshine until
for a couple of
Wurtzburg.
narrative, but
lie
Dr. Scan-
he anticipated
my
my
statement respecting
words of
this
Appendix.
408
power
dical science
is
me
to
practically the
that
it is
on the
develop the
life.
D. B.
appendix.
No.
409
2.
On
he answered
me:
Europe, but
tell
" Tell
me
me
that
it
introduced into
is
nothing more.
know
the
all
have
it."
Had
service of
Had
political writers.
On
it,
this point,
only on which
however,
we have
it
is
to rely.
trials in
east
regard to temperature.
to
from Mauritania
from Africa to England, without the
north to the south,
to Parthia,
facilities
and
of com-
appendix.
410
Eome.
Bath
stance
woolnext
to the skin
air
Bhumatdides,"
Maladies
which was,
D. U.
by Dr.
Gossc,
rdle in the
is
caloric
The reduction
existences.
brings, as
we have
seen,
general or local, in
all
nervous functions.
It
is,
there-
No
and
all
nate.
we
It
is,
in
Who
can
tell if
At
least,
we
Ap-pendix.
ment of
electricity.
411
for
the present to the mere effects of the sum of its accumulation, it is clear that we should make application
of
it
these cases
mediate application
dissipating them.
is
Its
and
at the
Nevertheless, in some of
its local
and im-
moderate action
is
equally in-
mation.
sirable to
"
The
heat.
tiplies
affections,
mankind."
evils that
assail
412
Appendix.
No.
3.
My dear Sir,
We have made the
Hammam.
This
is
Wood.
room above
180.
At about
this
it
would be
perfect.
specification,
You
Bath
will be
happy
to
know
at
We
may hope
to
E. Sheppard.
Index.
Absorption,
Actinism,
Law
of,
Bath, not a
340.
247.
7, 42,
to
Cli-
Heat of
310.
of,
its
Dryness
of,
74.
Importance to Soldiers,
the, 70.
Adaptation to Climate,
mate, 74.
Ague, Case
Institu-
of, 32.
Bath
of
Mussulman
tion, 49.
81,409.
indispensable,
Alleged injurious
330.
Effects
of,
Anaesthesia, 101.
Horses
on
and
Cattle, 866.
in the
60.
Farm, 367.
Apoplexy, 301.
on, 389.
Barrenness
Bath, 79.
removed
by
the
Bath, 49.
the
178.
of Riverside, 121.
Roman,
60, 64,
180,
190.
tion, 5.
How to
Introduce, 28.
Objections of Medical
to, 4-1.
Men
Process
of,
166.
Radiating, Jermyn-street,
412.
4H
Index.
how
Bath,
Introduced
England,
into
Cancer, Cure
287.
1.
Rheumatism,
Art
Cancer, 287.
Constructing,
of
in the
Hydrophobia, 299.
Turkish, 164.
Farm
Cataract, 304.
on Domestic Ani-
Effects
Kidneys, 305.
mals, 383.
Insanity, 306.
Fowls, 383.
A
A
Pigs, 384,395.
Scarlatina, 308.
Cows, 393.
Grey Hair,
Sheep, 394.
Ague, 310.
309.
Chorea, 313.
sure, 396.
means
Power
of Increase
for
315.
of
Typhus Fever,
Labour and
and
Milk,
Offspring,
Its use as a
Grain, 400.
Four Years
cured
without
an
Experience,
ment
389.
Head,
Cleanliness
of
treat-
of his, 83.
to the
300.
Exposure
Mr. Urquhart's
90.
Tendency
from Disease, in
Great Britain,
389.
of,
Cataract
Operation, 304.
398.
Cost
402.
Dropsy, 402.
Productiveness of Flesh,
Body,
93.
Leprosy, 294.
158.
Why called
Bath
of,
the,
in
and
Politeness, 22,
30, 43.
Index.
Climate, Adaptation of Bath to,
74.
Clothing
unnecessary,
in
415
our
in, 102.
treated by
Excess
One Meal
Day, 141.
Injurious,
of,
90.
Extinction
of,
105.
of, 13G.
Electricity, 357.
Development of,
as a
158.
78.
Means of Cure,
42.
Bath
for
In-
valids, 318.
Consumption
produced
41.
by
Habits, 240.
in the, 367.
J li ).
rience, 393.
treated
Kuys,
of
by
Sun's
7.
in the, 372.
Effect
on Domestic Ani-
mals, 383.
Benefit
Fowls, 383.
US.
Bigs, 381,395.
Cows, 393.
to, 45.
Sheep, 394.
A Protection
means
Power
229.
of, 14.
against Expo-
sure, 896.
of
for
Increase
of
Labour and
Productiveness of Flesh,
Milk, and Offspring, 398.
Index.
416
Farm, the Bath,
in
Its use as a
Experience,
Anticipation of Remedial
Value
389.
of,
ix,
of,
in 1826, 409.
Rays, 357.
389.
Reme-
Grain, 400.
Four Years'
Cost
all
dies, 196.
of, 36.
Experience of
197.
Tonic, 17.
Horses, Perspiration
in, 18.
375,
Improvement of Breed
of, 377.
Domestication
Gazul, 237.
Letter of Admiral
of,
377.
Gymnasium and
Hydrophobia, Case
on Colour, 309.
181.
Mythology,
2.
Injurious
(alleged)
Effects of
306.
Disorders, 12.
Bath
for, 318.
of,
106.
Radiating
Power and
Increase of Animal
Insanity, Case
Bath, 16.
cures
299.
in
of,
Heat
De
Rous, 386.
and
Trans-
Index.
Leared, Dr., Experience of the
417
Northumberland, Duke
timony
Bath, 249.
to
294.
of,
Men
Phthisis, 259.
Leprosy, Case
Tes-
of,
203.
of,
Cork, Ecport
to, 347.
of,
Sussex, Report
352.
of, 352.
Pain, Muscular,
its
Remedy, 74.
Morbid Sense
Cause and
of, 91.
Mahomet opposed
Maladies detected
the Bath,
6.
not "Weakening,
y the Smell,
Meal, One, a
Day
and Disease,
beneficial to
Men
object
to
care, 114.
the
Bath, 44.
Indifference
Military
tion of
Hospitals,
Bath
Perspire
from,
Why
Pigs, Effect of
Pliny,
216.
walked
Sunshine,
Poisons,
6.
Mythology, Heat
Man.
does
211.
Letter
280.
Bath,
Introduc-
347.
to,
Dr.,
117.
of, 19G.
Millingen,
110.
committed to our
Medical
19,
21.
334, 346.
in,
256.
Bath
on, 384.
naked
in
the
7.
Immunity from,
302.
in, 2.
184,
207.
Newcastle
of,
197.
Infirmary,
Report
Process in
the Turkish
16G.
E E
Bath,
Index.
418
Purification
their
and Pollution, 22
Sense
Canonical
Skin, Value
of, 11,
40.
in
Removal
Smell,
of Dead, 233.
Maladies
detected by,
332.
Rome,
69, 409.
Soldiers of
side, 129.
by
cured
Fever
Rich should
22.
Effects
1,
of,
sumption,
of, 5, 7,
357,
405.
151.
Riverside, Conversations
Sunstroke,
in Con7,
408.
2.
60.
Bath
121,
at,
204;
Roman
403.
Sweating-room
of,
at
64.
Bromley,
10.
Shampooing indispensable,
27,
190, 246.
Shampooing, Benefit
on
of, 93.
Radiating
gives
Immunity
Chamber, 412.
Improvement
Worthing,
Sheppard, Dr.,
Jermyn-
322.
Scott, Dr., of
in
street, 412.
Bath, 60.
Use
Sight,
Enemy,
of,
by Heat,
8.
Rheumatic
of Turkey, 81.
of,
305.
Thermometer, Nature's,
36.
Index.
Washing, Manner
in
of,
the
East, 186.
Waste
Water, Economy
Bath, 27.
Training Horses,
Tropics,
419
Use of Bath
in the, 56.
97.
Art of Construct-
Watson,
Dr.,
in,
Phthisis
healed
by, 259.
Wear and
Tear, Use
Heat
;
as a
means of
232.
9,
44; on
cure. 13
Riverside, 121.
of,
38
Vigour, Development
Gastric
Juice, 150.
ing, 158.
I.ONDON
185.
on the
of, 80.
at
"
ERRATA.
Page
30, for
92,
2,
of
Blood to the
to be cut out).
07,
t,
15,
117,
,,
3,
119,
6,
" Baths."
for "Bath," read
for " watted," read "washed.
for " lightest specific gravity," read "highest
specific gravity."
"
171, last line, for "split," read " spilt
17, for
"somewhat
self -reproach,"
Prospectus.]
[July, 1864.
THE HAMMAM
(TUEKI8H B^TH),
76,
JERMYN STREET.
THE BUILDING.
building is the Hammam of the Turks, without dirty
water running on the floors, heavy moisture, droppings from
the roof, plaster on the wall, cockroaches, and pattens.
Tin:
foot itself may bo placed on the marble.
The
area
for
in progress of completion,
ITS
USE IN HEALTH.
<.
ITS
By
USE IN DISEASE.
resources
less
effect
was not
visible."
" The Bath is looked upon (in Turkey) so much in the light
of a panacea by the lower orders, that they never dream of
consulting a Physician when taken ill."
Dr. Millingen,
Physician
to the
Sultan.
of
at the Hospital
of Kulali.
for the
three
Northern Counties.
era,
"
Never was there a greater mistake made than that peris weakening.
It drains away no living tissue, but
merely effete and poisonous matter, which was oppressing, and
spiration
the
" Formerly my care was to find, first the name and then the
cure of a disorder ;
now that I have the Bath, I don't care
about the name, because I am tare of the cure."
Dr. Charles
Luther, Introducer of the Bath into Germany,
We
"
have known nothing of heat as a treatment for disease.
I do not know any work where it has been referred to in the
most distant manner.
" The Bath is to the individual man comprising his liver,
kidneys,
its
"The
profession.
lr.
Thudicuum.
" The time will come when the Bath will be considered a
necessary appendage to every Hospital, Asylum, and Union."
Dr. ('r.MMiN.
In
KB.
cases
we heard
Hauran
to tell
in the
World.
At a dinner table in
Turkish Bath
God
whether at Cairo or Jerusalem, at Constantinople, or Damascus ?
said the Sheikh ;
but if you ask your
is great, and Effendis are wise,'
servant, he must say the best bath of all is to be found near Piccadilly,
in London.
From many trials of the Bath, where it is of the soil, we
can fully support this saying of the bronze son of the Desert the bath
in Jermyn-street being high above Oriental competition as to com
modiousness, order, cleanliness, and ventilation." Athenceum.
'
'
'
ST.
THE
St.
Hammam,
to
JAMES'S HOTEL.
has heen re-opened, and offers great
may
facilities
RESTAURANT.
A
Cafe or Restaurant
is
may be
obtained on applica-
tion.
Price
Is.
HoBEaT Habi'Wickb.
Esq.
192, Piocadilly
Date Due
,llf IJ
v'4'M
Demco
293-5
mi
ri
'7d
Accession no.
2C599
Author Urquhart
Manual of the
Turkish bath.
1S65
Call no. RMS21
865U
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