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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![is washing a sponge on the outside ; my idea is taking and compressing that sponge. You train a horse that he may he enabled to pass over a certain space of ground in a certain time ; you do not propose to supply muscle, but wind. Wind is supplied by the decarbonization of the blood otherwise than by the lungs. That and health is the object of training. The winner of the Oaks was not trained in the ordinary way, but in a Turkish bath. At Sheffield, there are run- ning matches and wrestling matches still extant; and the men no longer train as formerly, by toil, but by frequent- ing the bath.* You have got two means by which this may be attained—one by training, the other by the bath. Both are great operations. This is the country of training. Probably not one in this room can tell how it is done. It is a mystery and an art in itself. The trainer's art is a great achievement. Mr. Wilson.—It is medicine. Mr. Urquhart.—But it beats your application of it. Mr. Wilson.—It is medicine. My medicine applies as well to the beef-steak as to the black-draught. * Champion Belt of England won by the Tubkish Bath.—[From Sporting Life, Dec. 2nd, 1863.]— While train- ing for the race under notice, he (William Lang) broke down, one of his legs giving way, and Mr. Martin, his backer and mentor, was at one time fearful he would not be able to come to the scratch to contend for the belt which, having twice won, he had almost within his grasp. Acting upon advice, he had recourse to Turkish baths, and by local application, almost daily, he was soon as ' sound as a roach,' and on Monday he appeared in splendid condition; indeed, so confident were his friends and the public generally of his success that odds of 2 to 1, and ultimately 3 to 1, were offered on him.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21000281_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
