Baths and bathing : a description of all the various kinds of baths, both simple and medicated, administered at the Argyll Baths (established 1817) : 10A, Argyll Place, Regent Street, W. (near Oxford Circus), and 5, New Broad Street, City, E.C. (near the North London Railway station).

Date:
[1885]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Baths and bathing : a description of all the various kinds of baths, both simple and medicated, administered at the Argyll Baths (established 1817) : 10A, Argyll Place, Regent Street, W. (near Oxford Circus), and 5, New Broad Street, City, E.C. (near the North London Railway station). 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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    SECTION I. THE ARGYLL BATHS. These baths were built in 1817, by a medicalman^ for the purpose of giving all the more ordinary forms of bath^ as well as the various kinds that were specially employed at that time for medical purposes. Since that date great improvements in bathing generally have taken place, and many new forms of medicated baths with unquestionable remedial powers over various ailments, whether slight or grave, have been discovered. At the commencement of this year the Proprietors, with a view of keeping pace with the progress of the times, made a considerable outlay for improvements, and have, under the advice of •competent medical and sanitary authorities, entii'ely refitted most of the bath-rooms with more modern apparatus. Better baths have replaced the now obsolete forms, and the rooms have been enlarged and thoroughly ventilated, thereby removing all those drawbacks which passed muster in bygone years, but which are now no longer up to the present scientific standard. By such improvements, baths •of any and every sort can therefore bo administered with a perfection which has only been attainable by the extended experience the management has had over a period of nearly seventy years.