Transcriber’s Note:
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Luxurious Bathing:
| (Fourth Edition) A SKETCH BY ANDREW W. TUER: 1880. |  Shadows in the pond. | EIGHT ETCHINGS BY TRISTRAM ELLIS. 5⁄− |
| London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse, E.C. | New York: Scribner & Welford, 743 & 745, Broadway. |
ITS PRACTICE.
Treatises and disquisitions sufficient toform a library of no inconsiderable dimensionshave been written during the lastthree centuries on the subject of baths:boiling, freezing, variously medicated—includingtar-water, steam, and spray; milk,whey, broth, mud, sand, and even earth-baths—in which thepatient for hours together was buried up to his neck in a2fallow field—have all had their exponents and upholders;then there is the vapour-bath of the Russian, the dry, hot airor Turkish-bath, besides the cold air-bath recommended byFranklin, and those who like it may follow the example ofthe elder Pliny who used to indulge in a bath of sunshine.Now-a-days it is a common practice, on the shores of theMediterranean, for many of the inhabitants, during the hotmonths, to pass a considerable portion of their time sittingon chairs placed a few feet from the shore, the calm water,without even the nuance of a ripple, reaching to the neck,while the head is protected from the scorching sun by animmense grass hat.
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