Life in a tub; with a description of the Turkish bath

BY ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΣ.
“If men knew how to use water so as to elicit all the remedial results which it is capable of producing, it would be worth all other remedies put together.”— Dr. Macartney’s Lectures at Trinity College, 1826.
“The Sixth Commandment is suspended by one Medical Diploma, from the North of England to the South.”— Sydney Smith.
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“Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.” Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2.
TO RICHARD BARTER. ESQ., M.D.
Dear Sir,
To whom can I more fitly dedicate the following pages than to one, to whom, under Divine Providence, I owe the inestimable blessings of renewed health and of an invigorated constitution? Having derived untold benefit from the use of the Turkish Bath, first introduced by you into this country, and having witnessed the wonders effected by it in the case of others, I have felt it my duty to propagate the knowledge of its virtues in every direction: this I have endeavoured to do in the following pages, in conjunction with some observations on the Hydropathic and Allopathic systems.
Should the perusal of these pages lead to the currency of more correct ideas on the subject of Hygiene, and a greater knowledge of the principles of Hydropathy, than, at present prevail, my object in writing will have been fully attained.
Wishing you a long continuance in your career of enlightened usefulness,