. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. hings and scrub- bings which are deemed ne-cessary among the Orientalnations, it is allowed by allmedical winters that the useof the bath is of g-reat valuein preserving health, and ingiving a buoyancy to thefeelings. Every man who can aiford the means, and possessesthe conveniency, should have a private bath lit ted up in hisdwelling-house, in connexion with pipes of warm and cold fixed baths cannot be attained, a moveable bath of theform given in the annexed cut may be employed. Public Baths.—The mass of the people having
. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. hings and scrub- bings which are deemed ne-cessary among the Orientalnations, it is allowed by allmedical winters that the useof the bath is of g-reat valuein preserving health, and ingiving a buoyancy to thefeelings. Every man who can aiford the means, and possessesthe conveniency, should have a private bath lit ted up in hisdwelling-house, in connexion with pipes of warm and cold fixed baths cannot be attained, a moveable bath of theform given in the annexed cut may be employed. Public Baths.—The mass of the people having neither themeans to purchase nor the convenience for using private baths^must of course resort to public ones; and for their accommodation,therefore, every town ought to possess one or more establishmentsfitted up with all proper conveniences for bathing.* In this re-spect, notwithstanding our wealth, our boasted civilisation andmechanical skill, we fall infinitely short of the Greeks andRomans, who had not only their domestic, but their public baths,. * Eminent physicians have endeavoured to draw the attention of theBritish government to the importance of public baths, and of countenanc-ing their use by every aid of example and encouragement. While wewonder at their prevalence among all the eastern and northern nations,may we not lament that they are so little used in our own country ? Wemight, perhaps, find reason to allow that erysipelas, surfeit, rheumatism,colds, and a hundred other evils, particularly all sorts of cutaneous andnervous disorders, might be alleviated, if not prevented, by a proper atten-tion to bathing. The inhabitants of countries in which the bath is con-stantly used, anxiously seek it, in full confidence of getting rid of all suchcomplaints; and they are rarely disappointed. I may add my testimonyto theirs, having not only upon the occasion which gave rise to theseremarks, but in cases of obstructed perspiration much more alarming,dm-ing my travels, e
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