A practical dissertation on Bath-Waters ... To which is added, a relation of a very extraordinary sleeper near Bath [Samuel Chilton, of Tinsbury] / [William Oliver].

  • William Oliver
Date:
1707
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Credit: A practical dissertation on Bath-Waters ... To which is added, a relation of a very extraordinary sleeper near Bath [Samuel Chilton, of Tinsbury] / [William Oliver]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Romans efpeciaily much improv’d this part of Phyfick; very noble and mag¬ nificent Publick Baths were erected at the Charge of their tmperors, who Bath’d in Publick frequently among the People, to ingratiate themfelves with them: And fome, ’tis faid, were fo large, they re- fembled Cities $ not with Ammianus Mar- celinus, to call them Provinces. ’Twas upon this Account Agrippa built 170 pub¬ lick Baths for common life. And Panci- rollus tells us, thei e were 8 j6 Baths at Rome at one time. Profper Alpinus fays *, That at Grand Cair they had a great many very magnificent Stru&ures for Bathing, which were much frequented by the «jEgyptians in his Time. And we are well allured from Travellers, that all over Turkey tis of great life at this Time. Nor are our Antient Phyficians filent in this Point, as we may fee at large, in the Works of Hippocrates, Galen, ^JEtius, Trallianus, &c. where the manner of Bathing in all their different Baths is very amply defcribed. * De Medicin. Msypt. lib. 3. c. itf.
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