The Roman bath : a few remarks showing the reason why it is to be preferred to the Turkish bath for the use of the English public, in consequence of the economy of time in its use, and the ground on which it is recommended to the public as a channel for investment.

Date:
[1861]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Roman bath : a few remarks showing the reason why it is to be preferred to the Turkish bath for the use of the English public, in consequence of the economy of time in its use, and the ground on which it is recommended to the public as a channel for investment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    20/24 (page 18)
    to the model type of Bath from which our English one should be taken, this difference will not prevent my acknowledging- the deep debt of gratitude which all owe to one who, in the midst of much coolness from some of his brethren in the medical profession comes forward and says boldly, a I recommend you, the public, to take this hot-air Bath; it will do you good— it will neither give you cold nor weaken }mu; it is a luxury which will lessen the use of physic, and I, a medical man, who have made the skin my special study, step forth and bid you take it.” If the written opinions of men like Spencer Wells and Erasmus Wilson are not sufficient, go to Ancell or Bence Jones, Bryant or Fergusson, Goolden, Lawrence or Sibson, and the reader will find all these eminent men prescribing the Bath, and admitting its virtues. It is only those who look back on our past history and watch the slow progress which great improve- ments have made in consequence of obstinate profes- sional opposition, and the traditionary self-sufficiency which distinguishes those who happen to have made their mark, that can appreciate how much is due to men like these in assuring the public that this new in- novation on the domain of drugs is a good thing. London, 2nd April, 1861. immured within his city walls as the rustic amidst the fields and meadows of the country. His thermae would be to him in the place of a country house, of a horse ; it would give him air, exercise, fresh- ness, health, and life. Struggler in the sun and dust of hot July, how you envy our enjoyment I Toiler in the mud, the slush, the biting winds and blinding sleet of the wintry world without, what would you not give to change places with us ! ”