WORKS BY ERASMUS WILSON, F.R.S.
Popular Series.
I.
HEALTHY SKIN: a Popular Treatise on the Skin and Hair, their Preservation and Management. Foolscap 8vo, Sixth Edition. 2s. 6d.
II.
HUFELAND'S ART OF PROLONGING LIFE. Edited by Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S. Foolscap 8vo. 2s. 6d.
III.
THE EASTERN, OR TURKISH BATH: its History, Revival in Britain, and Application to the Purposes of Health. Foolscap 8vo. 2s.
A THREE WEEKS' SCAMPER THROUGH THE SPAS OF GERMANY AND BELGIUM. With an Appendix on the Nature and Uses of Mineral Waters. Post 8vo, cloth, 6s. 6d.
THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL DURING ITS FIRST CENTURY. 8vo, cloth, 10s. 6d.
Medical Series.
PORTRAITS OF DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Folio. Twelve fasciculi, 20s. each, half-bound, £13.
ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Fourth Edition. 8vo, cloth, 16s.; or, with Coloured Plates, 34s.
ON RINGWORM; its Pathology and Treatment. 12mo. With a Plate, cloth, 5s.
THE ANATOMIST'S VADEMECUM: a System of Human Anatomy. Eighth Edition. Foolscap 8vo, cloth, 12s. 6d.
THE DISSECTOR'S MANUAL OF PRACTICAL AND SURGICAL ANATOMY. Second Edition. 12mo, cloth, 12s. 6d.
ANATOMICAL PLATES; illustrating the Structure of the Human Body. Edited by Jones Quain, M.D., and Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S. Folio. Five vols.
THE
EASTERN,
OR
TURKISH BATH.
THE
EASTERN,
OR
TURKISH BATH:
Its History, Revival in Britain,
AND
APPLICATION TO THE PURPOSES
OF
HEALTH.
BY
ERASMUS WILSON, F.R.S.
LONDON:
JOHN CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
MDCCCLXI.
PREFACE.
It is now about twelve months since, that myattention was first attracted to the Eastern Bath.I thought I knew as much of baths as most men:I knew the hot, the warm, the tepid, and the cold;the vapour, the air, the gaseous, the medicated, andthe mud bath; the natural and the artificial; theshower, the firework, the needle, the douche, andthe wave bath; the fresh-river bath and the salt-seabath, and many more beside: I knew theirslender virtues, and their stout fallacies; they hadmy regard, but not my confidence; and I was notdisposed to yield easily to any reputed advantagesthat might be represented to me in favour of baths.Mr. Urquhart talked to me, but without producingany other than a passing impression; he had, manyyears before, illustrated, under my observation, thebeneficial effects of heat and moisture on his ownperson; but it bore no