# The eastern or Turkish bath

Author: Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58990

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## Summary

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 by the Phœdrians; frequency of thermal springs; Hamâms of the East, Hamâm Ali, near ancient Nineveh; Hamâm Meskhoutin in Algeria; Baths of Nero in Italy; German thermal springs, Carlsbad, Wiesbaden, Ems, Aix-la-Chapelle; the Geysers of Iceland; thermal springs of Amsterdam Island; of America; of England, Bath, Bristol, Buxton, Matlock pp. 1-5

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-eastern-or-turkish-bath-58990/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.[14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-eastern-or-turkish-bath-58990/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-eastern-or-turkish-bath-58990/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-eastern-or-turkish-bath-58990/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-eastern-or-turkish-bath-58990/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-eastern-or-turkish-bath-58990/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-eastern-or-turkish-bath-58990/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-eastern-or-turkish-bath-58990/chapters/4/index.md)