The Turkish bath : Mr. Chas. Bartholomew's evidence before the doctors on the prevention and cure of diseases by the use of Turkish, oxygen, ozone, and electric baths, and medicated atmospheres with reports on cases.

  • Bartholomew, Charles.
Date:
[1870?]
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Credit: The Turkish bath : Mr. Chas. Bartholomew's evidence before the doctors on the prevention and cure of diseases by the use of Turkish, oxygen, ozone, and electric baths, and medicated atmospheres with reports on cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEE FACE 270 TEE SIXTE EDITION. During the four years in which my evidence given before a committee of medical men, on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by the use of the Turkish and Oxygen Bath, Electricity, &c, has been before the public, it has passed through five editions, the whole of which have found their way into general circulation. It has also been translated into the French, and has been exten- sively circulated on the continent and in America. Medical men do not show that the treatment is either in opposition to the laws of nature, or scientifically false, or contrary to common sense ; but they refuse to recognise and patronise it; and when consulted by their patients as to the advisability of trying it, generally show such total ignorance of the whole subject, together with professional prejudice against it, that all classes desire to see and learn for themselves, what can be said for and against this new medi- cal discovery, and also what results have been obtained by its means. This constitutes the best apology for the publication of this Sixth Edition of ten thousand copies. A great number of medical men have, as the reader will expect, a natural dislike to this new mode of treating disease, because it disturbs the idea of their being wise and learned men, and leaves them to the alternative of either making themselves acquainted with the modus operandi of the treatment (which includes the Turkish, Oxygen and Ozone Baths, Electricity, artificially created atmos- pheres containing a variety of chemical compounds which are inhaled by the lung3 and skin,) or to admit their ignorance of the system j which would be very humiliating, and therefore very disagreeable. The first part of this book is simply a reprint of my Evidence before the Doctors in the Lecture Hall of the Bristol Athenaeum, on Monday and Tuesday, the 11th and 12th of June, 1866. The second part is the result of several years' steady advance in my Physio- logical and Chemical labours with the Oxygen Bath, the Ozone Bath, artificially created atmospheres, Electricity, &c, and which I have reasons to hope will prove of scientific interest and practical value, to thoso who wish to exercise their own faculties for themselves.