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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![Childbirth. r-i merly I could do nothing without my walk, my drive, or my gallop, and now that I write a great deal, seldom walk, and am never on horseback, I think I have given you the proof positive. and shall expect you to thank me for this in the way that will please me best: that is, by sending for a builder, without a moment's delay, that you may know the benefit of the bath even yet before your trial comes on: at least, have it for after- wards. Having this unexpected and blessed means placed within one's reach, I should be guilty of a crime if I did not endeavour to obtain it for those I love. For you, too, it is not loss so, to put it lightly aside. The following instructive curiosity is from a savage people :— CALIFORNIAN MIDWIFERY. [From the Medical News, Sept. 5, 1863.] The mother now (after the birth) remains quiet for fifteen or twenty minutes, when she goes to the nearest spring or pool of water, in which she bathes herself thoroughly. She is next caused to undergo a species of steam-bath, which is prepared by digging a hole in the earth, in which are placed hot stones, which are covered with sticks, over which are placed herbs ; next water is poured upon the stones, the patient, meanwhile, being placed over them in such a manner as to be exposed to the vapour thus generated. She is exposed to this medicaid vapour bath, wrapped in blankets, for half a day, and thus returns to her hut, from which I have often seen her come forth, in two or three days afterwards, in comparatively good health, and resume her ordinary avocations. Effect of the Bath on the Milk. Letter from Mr. Crawshay. Tynemouth, Feb. 1, 1863. Dr. Bramwell, of North Shields, when here to-day, seeing the children, who are in the first stage of whooping cough, said he was curious to see what would be the course of the complaint](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21000281_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
