The sweating cure : the physiological basis and curative effects of the Turkish bath / by John Balbirnie.

  • Balbirnie, John, 1810-1895.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The sweating cure : the physiological basis and curative effects of the Turkish bath / by John Balbirnie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    instrument of evil, when misapplied. Its dose requires to be regulated like that of any other remedy—and this certainly is the province of the physician. To be wielded therefore with safety, precision, and success, in the treatment of disease, and for the invigoration of the delicate— to be delivered from the evils of its maladministration—and to prevent such accidents as have already occurred in this country—to save, in short, a good cause from a bad name—the Turkish Bath must be under scientific prescription and skilled superintendence. In conclusion, it may be affirmed that the Turkish Bath amounts almost to a discovery ! It is at least a new-found boon to the States of the Western World. We claim for it to become a permanent institution among them, as a remedy for many of the evils of modern civilization—a remedy near at hand, safe, effective, and agreeable. The questions it stirs are those which, next to morality and religion, intimately affect a nation's best interests. The habits it promotes are those which most directly conduce to the health, the happiness, the longevity, the physical culture, the material prosperity, and the moral elevation of the people. JOHN BALBIRNIE. Claremont House, Great Malvern, May 8, 1863.