Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families . ituted for marble; but eventhis substance is attacked by chemicals, thoughmuch more slowlj. A. lining of large Dutchtiles is sometimes used: but here the jointsare very apt to leak. For baths adapted to allthe requirements of health and disease, andwhich are at
Cooley's cyclopaedia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades including medicine, pharmacy, hygiene, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the Pharmacopoeia and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families . ituted for marble; but eventhis substance is attacked by chemicals, thoughmuch more slowlj. A. lining of large Dutchtiles is sometimes used: but here the jointsare very apt to leak. For baths adapted to allthe requirements of health and disease, andwhich are at the same time durable and com-paratively inexpensive, we must, thereforeseek further. Porcelain, glass, and hardglazed stone-ware have been proposed, and areeven sometimes used for baths; but they pos-sess the disadvantages of being fragile, and BATH 257 Tcry liable to crack when filled with hot waterin cold weather. Wedgewood-ware is verybeautiful and durable; but is expensive, andbaths formed of it can only be obtained onspecial order. Stourbridge-ware, as producedof late years, is the only product of the pottersart that appears entirely to meet the case;but even this yields in durability to enamellediron as a material for baths adapted to allliquids and temperatures, and to rough orcareless usage. (See engr, 1.) The qualities of poetabie baths (see engr. 2) aregenerally made of copper. Stout tinned orgalvanised iron, and even stout block-tinthickly covered with waterproof paint or
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