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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![your theory? Why, he said, it is caloric: the old system abstracted the caloric ; I retain the caloric, and even add more to it. ] A few days afterwards, a friend of mine in ITanover-square slipped from his horse, and had a sprain. I put my country friend's treatment into use; and after I had once packed the joint, my duty as a physician was at an end. He got well, and in a few days was walking about his room on this seriously-sprained joint; whereas, on a previous occasion, when he had a sprain, he had been laid up for months. Another illustration of the effect of caloric upon the surface I had myself to-day. I was in Mr. Holland's bath, enjoying a temperature of 160 degrees for some time; and then I was invited into a temperature of 170, the heat of which was rendered still more appreciable by its being moist air instead of dry. When I made an attempt to go in, I stepped back. My friend, howovor, said to me, Go in ; you will bear it: and I wont in; and then I was astonished to find that the part of the body that was most sensitive to the influence of tho heat was just the part of the body which, according to previously-considered theory, should not have felt it. It was my face and my hands which felt burnt, and not the rest of my body. Whereupon I was obliged to say, The least sensitive part of my body is that which is covered by my clothes; and I acquired the knowledge that the exposure of my face to the air had given the skin an appreciation of tem- perature which the rest of the body was incapable of, and which, in point of fact, indicated that tho rest of the body was, to a certain extent, in a paralyzed con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21000281_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
