The Turkish Bath, Its Design and Construction - Robert Owen Allsop

THE TURKISH BATH FOR HORSES.

Animals of many kinds, including horses, dogs, cows, sheep, and pigs, have been experimented upon with regard to the bath, and with much success. But for practical purposes all we need here consider is the design of the bath for horses, since a bath for a horse will evidently be suitable for a cow, and might not be wholly beneath the dignity of a pig. It is, after all, only in connection with the training of horses that anything of practical importance has been accomplished in this direction. Several Turkish baths for horses have been erected in this country in connection with hospitals for horses, attached to large businesses, and appended to training stables. In the development of race-horses the treatment has, according to the opinion of several authorities, been found eminently beneficial.

The bath must be arranged in connection, and in direct communication with the stables. It may consist, as Fig. 27—a plan of a bath built for the Great Northern Railway Company's hospital for horses—of a washing, and two hot, rooms. An airy shed will do for a place for the animals to cool, and in fine weather they will derive more benefit from being turned out in the open. In the plan given it will be seen that the horse is led through the washing room into the first hot room. Without turning round, he may be led into the second hot room and thence into the washing room again. In the hot rooms, which are heated by a convoluted stove, are stocks, wherein, if restive, the animal can be secured. A similar arrangement is made in the washing room, where, after undergoing the sweating process, the horse is groomed down, an operation that should be performed in part with an iron strigil, much after the pattern of those employed upon their own bodies by the ancient Romans.

Fig. 27.
Plan of the Great Northern Railway Company's Turkish Bath for Horses.

These equine Turkish baths need be very inexpensive and simply constructed, though, where it is desired to do the thing well, glazed bricks should, for the sake of cleanliness, be used for lining the walls. All that will be required in the washing rooms is a couple of draw-off taps with hot and cold water, some pails, a scraper, and wash-leather. On leaving the sudatory chamber, the horse should first be well scraped with the scraper, carefully sponging, or dousing him, if necessary, with warm water. Buckets of hot, tepid, and cold water should then be thrown over him, and having been well rubbed down with the leather, he should then be covered with a cotton sheet, and his legs bandaged with cotton bands, the sheets, &c., being gradually removed after an interval of about a quarter of an hour, and the animal turned into a shed, or into the open, to cool.

THE END.

INDEX.

A.
Air, allowance of, in hot rooms, [81]
backflow of, [83]
circulation of, in hot rooms, [85]
expansion in heating, [82]
filters, [67]
flues for vitiated, [92]
inlets for cold, [67]
intake, position of, [68]
arrangement of, [69]
its changes in the bath, [71]
of bath, necessity for dryness of, [85]
overheated, [76]
passage of, through bath rooms, [70]
rapidity of flow of, [82]
Apodyterium, the, [4], [13]
and frigidarium, combined, [13]
B.
Bath, architecture of, [105]
ascending shower, [93]
back shower, [94]
decoration of, [105]
elaborate needle, [138]
foot, [98]
materials for, [105]
Mr. Urquhart's cheap private, [120], [123]
needle, [93], [94]
position of private, [120]
preliminary shower, [97]
primary object of, [10]
public, general requirements of, [9]
shower, [92]
style of design for, [109]
subsidiary apartments of, [14]
the, in asylums, [139]
the, in hospitals, [139]
the "slipper", [127]
wave, [95]
Baths, ancient and modern, difference between, [10]
Roman and Oriental, [2]
works on, [3]
cheap, [66]
private, [125]
complete private, [125]-[127]
construction of, in private houses, [123], [124]
Eastern, [110]
elaborate private, [129], [132], [133]
importance of double sets of, [137]
importance of intercommunication between various, [137]
in crowded sites, [18]
nature of private, [119]
objections to extemporised hot air, [118]
Old Roman, [110]
on one level, [18]
private, [118]
public and commercial, [6]
public, lack of, in England, [7]
supply of water for private, [128]
two classes of, [26]
ventilation of private, [122]
Bath-rooms arranged en suite, advantage of, [37]
drainage of, [44]
Balneæ, the Pompeian, [112]
ancient, [4]
Benches, felting for marble, [116]
Bignor, Roman, bath at, [112]
Boilers, [87]
Boot-room, fittings for, [116]
Box, Roman bath at, [112]
C.
Calidarium, the, [4], [33]
floor of, [116]
Ceilings of enamelled iron, [106]
Checks, shelves for, [116]
Cisterns, [87], [88]
Cleansing process, ways of concluding, [12]
Cold plunge, object of, [12]
Combined cooling and dressing room, its arrangement, [54]
Cooling and dressing rooms combined, their merits and demerits, [54]
Cooling room, carpets for, [114]
couches in, [114]
furniture of, [113]
importance of ventilating, [57]
method, [57]
lighting of, [103]
the separate, [53]
Cooling rooms in hydropathic establishments, [138]
fireplaces in, [23]
methods of arranging, [52]
temperature of, [53], [58]
D.
Divans, construction of, [114]
Douche, horizontal, [95]
room, the, [45]
spinal, [93]
Drainage, importance of perfect, [44]
Dressing and cooling rooms, [13]
Dry atmosphere, necessity for, in bath, [4]
F.
Firing, evil of bad and forced, [80]
Floorings for cheap baths, [34]
Flues, hot and cold air, construction of, [40]
Foul air conduits, [71]
Frigidarium, design of, [108]
divans in, [109]
fountain in, [101]
of private baths, [129]
the, [4], [13]
the old Roman, [57]
Furnace, advantage of a fireclay, [75]
fireclay, for private bath, [132]
method of constructing, [74]
expansion and contraction of, [76]
Furnaces for private baths, [121]
heating power of, [80]
with iron flues, [72]
Furnace chamber, position of, [40]
G.
Gas, objections to, in bath, [102]
Glazed earthenware, its suitability for baths, [33]
Good and bad baths, difference between, [82]
Good bath, what it is, and how gained, [9]
H.
Hair-dresser and chiropodist, [15]
Hammam, the, Jermyn Street, [18]
Hammam, the Oriental, [3]
Heat, convected and radiant, [5], [59]
methods of applying to bather, [10], [56]
prevention of transmission of, [122]
Heating apparatuses for private baths, [120]
screen walls to, [77]
Heating by fireclay furnaces, [73]
iron flue-pipes, [72]
ordinary stoves, [72]
convection, objection to, [79]
steam, [77]
arrangements for, [78]
dangers attendant upon, [77]
of small baths, [73]
of the bath, its importance, [59]
by the ordinary method, [62]
on the hot-air principle, [62]
and ventilation, [59]
theory of, [69]
High temperatures, beneficial effect of in cases of disease, [11]
necessity for, [11]
Horses, bathing of, [142]
"Hot-air bath," a misleading term, [5]
Hot-air bath, the, [6]
appliances and arrangements for, [63]
Hot air, height of delivery of, into laconicum, [40]
manner, [40]
principle, objections to, [61]
Hot rooms, benches in, [38]
brickwork in, [107]
ceilings of, [34]
chairs and benches in, [116]
decoration of, [105]
doorways in, [38]
fireproof floors over, [35]
glazing in, [38]
height of, [39]
Indian matting in, [106]
joinery in, [37]
lighting of, [102]
materials for, [38]
objection to stepped benches in, [39]
proportional area of, [33]
position of partitions in, [37]
radiation of heat from, [35]
Hot rooms, windows in, [35]
treatment of woodwork in, [106]
Hydropathy and the Turkish bath, [140]
Hydropathic establishments, the bath in, [134]
I.
Invalids, consideration for, in bathing establishments, [138]
Irish "sweating houses," old, [5], [13]
L.
Laconicum, the, [4], [32]
ceiling of, [35]
floor of, [116]
Ladies' baths, [14], [44], [111]
Laundry, [16]
Lavatorium, the, [4], [43]
and shampooing room, [41]
the hydropathic, [138]
of private bath, [128]
washing basins in, [43]
water fittings of, [89]
Lavatrina, the, [119], [127]
M.
Mont Dore, baths at the Hotel, [135]
cure, the, [136]
Moorish bath, heating of the, [59]
Mustaby, the Turkish, [57]
O.
Obstacles to the progress of the bath, [1]
Oriental colour decoration, [110]
P.
Pay office, the, [14]
Perspiration, object of, [11]
Plumbing, [88], [100]
Plunge bath, the, [46]
between hot rooms and frigidarium, [12]
chamber, lighting of, [104]
construction of, [48]
decoration of, [113]
depth of, [48]
for private baths, [129]
in hydropathic establishments, [138]
water fittings of, [99]
Popular ignorance and the bath, [1]
Processes of the bath, [11]
Public Baths and Wash-houses Act, inadequacy of, [7]
Public baths in England, unworthy of the nation, [29]
general disposition of plan of, [17]
R.
Rest after bath, necessity for, [13]
Roman baths, method of heating the old, [59]
nature of heat in old, [79]
S.
Sanitary accommodation, necessity for care in providing, [15]
Shampooer, space required by each, [43]
Shampooing and the private bath, [128]
benches, [34], [42]
positions of bather during, [43]
value of, [12]
and washing room combined, arrangement of, [43]
room, [42]
ventilation of, [42]
lighting of, [104]
Shower for head, [100]
preliminary warm, [44]
So-called Turkish baths, their harmfulness, [2]
Stokery, the, [15]
Stoves, attributes of good, [64]
Convolute, [64]
heating power of [80]
method, of constructing, furnace chamber for, [64]
iron, [63]
objections to exposing in hot rooms, [72]
plain iron radiating [125]
radiating surfaces of, [63]
Subsidiary apartments of the bath, [32]
Sudatorium, best position for bathers in [38]
Sudatory chamber, a simple, [119]
T.
Tank, hot water, [87]
Temperature, importance of maintaining [79]
of bath rooms [78]
regulating, [80]
variations in [79]
Tepidarium, the [4], [32]
drinking fountain in, [100]
mosaic floors in, [108]
of private bath, [128]
old Roman, [39]
Thermæ, old Roman, [3]
Tonic baths [92]
Transmission of heated air, prevention of, [36]
heat, [36]
Treatment, course of, in the bath, [11]
Turkish bath, association of miscellaneous hydropathic baths with the, [134]
building, field for activity in [139]
for animals [141]
for horses [141]
Great Northern Railway Company's [141]
heating of the true [59]
the, a misnomer [5]
what it is, [4]
direction in which improvement may be made in the, [60]
Turkish baths, Baden-Baden, [30]
Bartholomew's, Leicester Square, [25]
Bremen, [29]
Burton's, Euston Road, [27]
Camden Town, [22]
foul atmosphere of some so-called, [2], [82]
in Germany, [29]
lukewarm, [139]
Nevill's, London Bridge, [25]
Northumberland Avenue, [23]
Nuremberg, [30]
Savoy Hill, [20]
Vienna, [30]
V.
Valve, thermometer regulating, [138]
Valves and cocks, [90]
regulating, for shower bath, &c., [96]
Ventilation, [139]
importance of, in hot rooms, [81]
in cramped sites, [69]
mechanical, [82]
Ventilator gratings, [83]
Ventilators, disposition of, in hot rooms, [70]
number and size of, [71]
position of, [71]
W.
Washing and shampooing rooms, various ways of arranging, [41]
Water, pressure of, [88]
Water fittings, [87]
of private bath, [128]
value of simplicity in, [97]