Bathing : how to do it, when to do it, and where to do it / by Edgar Sheppard.

  • Sheppard, Edgar, 1819-1897.
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Bathing : how to do it, when to do it, and where to do it / by Edgar Sheppard. 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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    PREFACE. mHIS pamplilet originally appeared as a Review of certain publications haying reference to the Turk- ish Bath (the names of which are given on p. 9) in the Journal of Mental Science. It was afterwards published separately, upon the advice of friends, as containing in a condensed and popular form all the latest information concerning, and the most practical directions about, the important subject of which it treats. The result has fully justified the advice given ; and the author is called upon to publish a second edition of his monograph. He avails himself, therefore, of this opportunity to add considerably to the text, by which the pamphlet assumes more the character of a practical but com- pendious treatise. An enlarged personal experience of six months, and the opening of his own Bath in Colney Hatch Asylum, where he has already treated upwards of 40 cases of insanity in various forms and phases, will give an increased weight and authority to the opinions here