Lvxrious bathing : a sketch / by Andrew W. Tuer, eight etchings by Tristram Ellis.
- Andrew White Tuer
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lvxrious bathing : a sketch / by Andrew W. Tuer, eight etchings by Tristram Ellis. 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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![fallow field—have all had their exponents and upholders; then there is the vapour-bath of the Ruffian, the dry, hot air or Turkifh-bath, befides the cold air-bath recommended by Franklin, and thofe who like it may follow the example of [ 2 ] the elder Pliny who ufed to indulge in a bath of funfhine. Now-a-days it is a common practice, on the fhores of the Mediterranean, for many of the inhabitants, during the hot months, to pafs a confiderable portion of their time fitting on chairs placed a few feet from the fhore, the calm water, without even the nuance of a ripple, reaching to the neck, while the head is protected from the fcorching fun by an immenfe grafs hat. The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21000591_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
