Bathing : how to do it, when to do it, and where to do it / by Edgar Sheppard.

  • Sheppard, Edgar, 1819-1897.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Bathing : how to do it, when to do it, and where to do it / by Edgar Sheppard. 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.

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    expressed, and to the general views advanced on the subject of bathing. However plausible may be the theories which relate to the varied treatment of disease, and however sanguine may be the views of enthusiastic specialists, they have no practical significance in this practical age, if they are not sustained by experimental facts, and elucidated by impartial enquiry. This enquiry the author has made ; these facts have been yielded to him by the imperious realities of a great public institution. He feels that he cannot more safely commend his opinions to those who are anxious to study the physiological and hygienic aspects of the Bath, than by placing under their eyes an extract from his own annual Report for 1865 to the Visiting Justices of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, at Colney Hatch:— “ At the close of my last report I spoke of the dis- appointment which I had experienced at the estimate for the construction of a Turkish Bath having so far exceeded the sum which the Committee felt justified in appropriating to it, as to necessitate its temporary postponement. More modest plans have met the financial difficulty. A Bath has been built, and was opened on the 26tli of July. An account of this opening, with drawings and plans, has already ap- peared in the pages of a quarterly journal devoted to the specialty in which we are engaged. Since the above-mentioned date the Bath has been visited by