FOOTNOTES:
[1] "Part of the funereal rites of the Moors was to convey the corpse to the bath."—Urquhart, from "Mision Historial de Marueccos."
[2] F. W. Ainsworth: "Journey to Kalah Sherghat and Al Hadhr in 1840" (Transactions of the Geographical Society).
[3] "The Pillars of Hercules; or, a Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848." By David Urquhart, M.P. 1850.
[4] "The Lebanon (Mount Souria): a History and a Diary." By David Urquhart. 1860.
[5] What would Mr. Ellis say of a country in which there existed no "cleansing apparatus" whatever?—for example, his native country.
[6] Pliny, in one of his letters, relates, in reference to the reading of poetical productions in the gymnasia:—"This 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 seems to be so little disposition in the public to attend assemblies of this kind, that the sciences still flourish, and men of genius are not discouraged from producing their performances."
[7] A circus attached to Roman gardens, for riding or driving.
[8] The state meal of the Romans, usually taken at the ninth hour—i.e., three P.M.
[9] "Guide to the Ruins of the Roman City of Uriconium at Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury." 1859.
[10] 1852.
[11] "Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo." 1846.
[12] Probably the scalding makhtas of Bayle St. John.
[13] "Tournefort, who had taken the vapour baths at Constantinople, where they are much less careful than at Grand Cairo, thinks they injure the lungs; but longer experience would have convinced him of his error. There are no people who practise this bathing more than the Egyptians, nor any to whom such diseases are less known. They are almost wholly unacquainted with pulmonic complaints."
[14] This chapter is an abstract of a Paper read at the meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, in Glasgow, in Sept. 1860.
[15] "Pillars of Hercules."
[16] "The Pillars of Hercules."
[17] "The Pillars of Hercules."
[18] This Paper was presented to the British Medical Association, at its meeting in Torquay, in August, 1860, and was published in the "British Medical Journal" of Oct. 13th, 1860.
[19] These observations and rules for the bath were drawn up by a gentleman of much practical experience on the subject, and I have thought that I should be doing a service to the reader to reprint them in this place. They are peculiarly suggestive of self-management in the bath.