The Eastern, or Turkish bathMiller, Wood & Company, 1865 - 65 pàgines |
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affusion agreeable animal basin blood body Britain British Medical Association Calidarium chest chill circulation clean clothes cold water couch cummerbund cure Diocletian disease Doctor of Divinity dome drink Dyspepsia Eastern Bath economy effects emunctory enjoyment enter exercise fatigue feel feet flue friction Frigidarium function gazul gout habit Hamam head healthy skin heat Hercules high temperatures hot bath hour inconvenience joints labor Laconicum ladies Laight St limbs lungs luxury marble means moisture morbid Movement-Cure muscles muscular muscular system mustaby napkin natural neck nervous neuralgia nutrition operation organs outer hall pass perspiration Phoenicia Pillars of Hercules platform pores practiced bather purified rheumatism Roman bath rubbing scalding scarf-skin sensation shampooer shampooing shoulders sleek as satin soap softened spasm strength Sudatorium surface sweat take cold tellak Tepidarium Thermæ Turkish Bath Turks Urquhart vapor walk warm water watery fluid whole Witt's bath wooden pattens
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Pàgina 17 - covered with cushions and rich carpets, on which sat the ladies; and on the second their slaves behind them, but without any distinction of rank by their dress, all being in the state of nature, that is, in plain English, stark naked." There was as little to disturb them in that state as a group of naked children in the nursery; they had
Pàgina 36 - labor'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its end produce, Yet serves to second, too, some other use." One word more as to the importance of the skin in the animal economy, and that word a summary of its functions and principal vital attributes. The skin is a " sanitary commissioner," draining the system of its impurities; it is an energetic
Pàgina 10 - us how Andromache, with matronly care, prepared a hot bath for her husband Hector, against his return from battle :— "Her fair-haired handmaids heat the brazen urn, The BATH preparing for her lord's return." We are taught also that Vulcan, or, as others say, Minerva, discovered certain hot
Pàgina 17 - most of their skins shiningly white, only adorned by their beautiful hair, divided into many tresses, hanging on their shoulders, braided either with pearl or ribbon, perfectly representing the figures of the Graces.
Pàgina 13 - year has proved extremely fertile in poetical productions : During the whole month of April, scarce a day has passed wherein we have not been entertained with the recital of some poem. It is a pleasure to me to find, notwithstanding there
Pàgina 16 - it are two raised sofas (platforms) of marble, one above another. There were four fountains of cold water in this room, falling first into marble basins, and then running on the floor in
Pàgina 14 - they were themselves the filthiest of mortals ; yet no sooner did they see the bath than they adopted it, made it a rule of their society, a necessary adjunct to every settlement, and Princes and Sultans endowed such institutions for the honor of their name.
Pàgina 5 - the fresh-river bath and the salt-sea bath, and many more beside: I knew their slender virtues, and their stout fallacies ; they had my regard, but not my confidence ; and I was not disposed to yield easily to any reputed advantages that might be represented to me in favor of baths.
Pàgina 24 - above the boiling-point of water. If I had had bread, or meat, or eggs with me, they must necessarily have been cooked at that heat. But in reality there is nothing wonderful in all this. I am informed that during the Indian mutiny, the heat in the tents was sometimes as high as 140°.
Pàgina 40 - disuse of its proper functions. In a word, the habit of clothing the body, of keeping it shut in from the air and from the light, weakens the nerves of the skin, and consequently the natural and healthy sensibility of the organ. Although I could not appreciate the extreme heat of Mr.