Category: History - British
THE BATH, an animal instinct; coeval with the earliest existence of man; common to every rank; a ceremony of his birth, and a funereal rite; discovery of thermal springs; the Scamander; commemoration of the hot-bath by Homer; the hot-baths of Hercules; estimation of hot-baths...
THE BATH, an animal instinct; coeval with the earliest existence of man; common to every rank; a ceremony of his birth, and a funereal rite; discovery of thermal springs; the Sc...
2. CHAPTER II.Construction of the bath, illustrated by the description of Mr. Witt's bath; the Calidarium; the heating apparatus; materials of construction; the flue; the _dureta_; Mr. Stewar...
3. CHAPTER III.Proper employment of the bath; proper temperature; proper time for taking the bath; duration and frequency of taking the bath; customs of the Moslem; unfounded apprehension of t...
4. CHAPTER IV.Adaptation of the Turkish Bath to the horse, dog, oxen, cows, sheep, swine, &c.; its application to the purpose of training; Mr. Goodwin's management of horses after severe exer...
5. CHAPTER I.The Bath is an animal instinct: and, _par excellence_, a human instinct; it is as much a necessity of our nature as drink. We drink because we thirst--an _interior sense_. We ba...
6. CHAPTER II.[14The Eastern Bath in its essential nature is a well ventilated apartment, in which the air is heated to an average temperature of 130 degrees of Fahrenheit. The bather sits, or r...
7. CHAPTER III.It consists in the selection of a _temperature_ which is suitable to the constitution and idiosyncrasies of the individual; of a _time of day_ most in accord with the constituti...
8. CHAPTER IV.The Turkish Bath is not only applicable to man, but is suitable also to animals, to the horse and the dog, those faithful and useful friends and companions of man; and also to h...