# Luxurious Bathing

Author: Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900; Ellis, Tristram J., 1844-1922 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: How To ...

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62531

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Luxurious+Bathing+Tuer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Treatises and disquisitions sufficient to form a library of no inconsiderable dimensions have been written during the last three centuries on the subject of baths: boiling, freezing, variously medicated—including tar-water, steam, and spray; milk, whey, broth, mud, sand, and even earth-baths—in which the patient for hours together was buried up to his neck in a fallow field—have all had their exponents and upholders; then there is the vapour-bath of the Russian, the dry, hot air or Turkish-bath, besides the cold air-bath recommended by Franklin, and those who like it may follow the example of the elder Pliny who used to indulge in a bath of sunshine. Now-a-days it is a common practice, on...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luxurious-bathing-62531/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luxurious-bathing-62531/chapters/2/index.md)