Manual of the Turkish bath : heat, a mode of cure and a source of strength for men and animals / from the writings of Mr. Urquhart ; edited by John Fife.

  • Urquhart, David, 1805-1877.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Manual of the Turkish bath : heat, a mode of cure and a source of strength for men and animals / from the writings of Mr. Urquhart ; edited by John Fife. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    of acting on the skin of lower animals in febrile and other diseases, and here we have it.—Page 244. Cows are subject to blood disorders, to fever, func- tional disturbance of the skin, and other secreting organs; to organic cutaneous diseases which are apt to become chronic ; to rheumatic affections, and a large number of inflammatory disorders. In the long category of diseases included under the foregoing heads, we shall find one and all pertain to the kind likely to be much benefited by heat.* But it is to ward off disease, and to preserve health, tbat among dairy-stock, particularly in huge towns, the bath might prove of great teroice. Under the head of Positive Disease, I am not able to quote an instance, on my own farm, of lung distemper. This is attributable, I believe, to the preventive power always at command; the rule being to put every animal in on the first symptom of sickness. The horse-dealer I referred to before, on being asked if horses accustomed to the bath caught cold readily, answered:— ''There is not a horse sheet, il in the place. The top halves of the stable doors are always off. The horses arc always read;/ for work. You will not hear a conrjh in the wprst season. Whenever they are severely worked, or exposed, they are put in, ami that sets them all right. On one of the open nights last winter, I asked my steward, how many horses he had had in at once. He reminded me of a wet windy day that we had sent four * The writer used a Greek work. I have thought it better to put the English equivalent.