Manual of the Turkish bath : heat, a mode of cure and a source of strength for men and animals / from the writings of Mr. Urquhart ; edited by John Fife.

  • David Urquhart
Date:
1865
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Credit: Manual of the Turkish bath : heat, a mode of cure and a source of strength for men and animals / from the writings of Mr. Urquhart ; edited by John Fife. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    man, has superadded to a morbid skin a diseased mind. [The bath was here announced as ready. The con- versation was continued, but the shorthand notes were resumed only between two and three hours later.] Dr. Druitt.—Will you tell us how children should be treated so as to enable them to go without clothing in our climate ? Mr. Urquhart.—Take off their clothes. Dr. Druitt.—But, as a question of fact (for on such questions all a priori reasonings go for nothing), will you tell me the facts upon which you built your obser- vation ? Mr. Urquhart.—The results I have obtained depend upon the a priori conclusions. Fact means thing done. Dr. Druitt.—Well, what led you first to make the experiment ? Mr. Urquhart.—It would be more to the purpose if I were to ask you on what ground you had come to the conclusion that clothes are necessary in our climate, or why you have not given up a notion which you now own is erroneous. To tell you the process of reasoning and observation I passed through would take hours, and would shut out entirely the subjects for which you have taken the trouble to come down here, and with a view to which your reporter is taking notes,—viz., that the Medical Society should be able to pronounce an opinion on the medical value of the bath. Nevertheless, I will give you what you will call a fact, but which I do
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