The improved Turkish bath : what it is, who should take it, why, when, how, and where / by E. P. Miller, M.D.

  • Miller, Eli Peck, 1828-1912.
Date:
1870
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Credit: The improved Turkish bath : what it is, who should take it, why, when, how, and where / by E. P. Miller, M.D. 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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    removes ugliness and increases beauty. It takes away the marks of care and anxiety and gives freshness to the countenance, and buoyancy to the spirit. It makes one who is tired and worn with mental or physical la- bor feel rested, refreshed, and invigorated. It increases the freshness and loveliness of the gentler sex more than can all the cosmetics in the world. It will make those who are cross, fretful, and peevish, more amiable and agreeable. It overcomes an appetite for stimulants, to- bacco, and opium, quicker and more effectually than can be done in any other way. It tends to make men more moral and virtuous by subduing morbid desires and cravings, and securing for them thorough cleanli- ness which is next to godliness. It establishes a more natural appetite, more complete digestion, purer secre- tions, more perfect assimilation, more complete nutri- tion, and thus makes a man feel purer, freer, and happier; and more than this, it makes him richer by keeping him in health, thus saving the time and money otherwise spent in sickness, and for drugs and nostrums. If every man, woman, and child, in this country, could take one good Turkish Bath each week it would be of inestimable value to the race. Persons of seden- tary habits, merchants, bankers, lawyers, ministers, lit- erary men, clerks, men of leisure, and gentlemen or ladies of wealth and ease, should take these baths every week as a means of preserving their health, increasing their wealth, and thus enhancing all the enjoyments of life. Sick people should take the Bath, to get well. The majority of diseases are due to poisons retained in the blood by the obstructed action of the excretory organs, particularly the skin, and the safest and most effectual method of cure is to reestablish the action of the skin and work out these poisons by perspiration, by sham-