Diseases of the heart and lungs : their physical diagnosis, and homœopathic and hygienic treatment / by George Wyld.

  • Wyld, George, 1821-1906.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Diseases of the heart and lungs : their physical diagnosis, and homœopathic and hygienic treatment / by George Wyld. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    t: institution ” which appears to instil into its votaries much enthusiasm. The Turkish bath, with some modifications, is the legitimate descendant of the old Homan hath, and those now existing, especially at Constantinople, are many of them very splendid establishments. Briefly stated, the hot-air bath consists of a sweating room, or two sweating rooms of different temperatures, heated by flues ; a washing-room, and a cooling-room. But the sweating-room and wasliing-room may be in one, while a very excellent substitute for the cooling- room is to be found, while reclining on a seat in the open air, as in a garden. The temperature of the bath is generally from 120° to 1G0°, although as an experiment, and in disease, a temperature as high as 250° has been submitted to. The Turkish bath contains some fine steam. In the hot-air bath there is either no steam or only a very little, produced by sprinkling a little water on the hot plates of the flue. The time the individual remains in the bath is gene- rally from twenty minutes to one hour; although in certain diseases the patient might beneficially re- main hours in the bath, being occasionally relieved, if faint, by drinking cold water, or removing for a minute or two into the cold or open air. The bath should be taken deliberately and quietly, all haste being inimical to a favorable result. From one to two hours are required to take the bath effectually. After the individual has been sweated sufficiently, he is usually shampooed, then washed with soap and hot water, then washed down with tepid or cold wrater, after which he reposes in the cooling-room.