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inflammatory affections for its cooling effects. It is usually medicated
with some acid or alkali. The latter unites with the oily secretion of
the skin and forms a soapy compound easily removed by the water. The
temperature should be regulated according to the vitality of the
patient; and the bath may be repeated two or three times a day. It
removes superfluous heat, and keeps the skin in a condition favorable
for excretion.

THE WARM BATH, at a temperature varying from 92 deg. to 98 deg. Fahr., is always
agreeable and refreshing. It equalizes the circulation and softens the
skin, by removing all impurities. It moderates pain and soothes the
whole system. It does not weaken or debilitate the person, but is in
every way beneficial. It is an efficient, remedial agent in many chronic
diseases, convulsions, spasmodic affections of the bowels, rupture,
rheumatism, and derangement of the urino-genital organs. It should be
employed immediately before going to bed unless urgent symptoms demand
it at other times. It may be medicated or not, as circumstances require,
but should always be taken in a warm room.

THE HOT BATH at a temperature of from 98 deg. to 110 deg. Fahr. is a powerful
stimulant. It excites the nerves, and through them the entire system. It
causes a sense of heat and a constriction of the secretory organs; but
perspiration, languor, and torpor soon follow. In the sudden
retrocession of cutaneous diseases, it restores the eruptions to the
surface and gives speedy relief. The hot bath may be applied locally
when circumstances require.

THE RUSSIAN BATH consists in the application of hot vapor, at a
temperature varying from 112 deg. to 200 deg. Fahr. The patient is first
subjected to a moderately warm temperature, which is gradually increased
as he becomes inured to it, the head being surrounded with cloths wet in
cold water. Upon emerging from it, the bather is plunged into cold water
or receives a cool, shower bath. In rheumatic and cutaneous diseases,
chronic inflammations, and nervous affections, the Russian bath is an
effective remedy.

THE TURKISH BATH is a, dry, hot-air bath. The bather passes from one
apartment to another, each one being of a higher temperature than the
preceding. He undergoes a thorough shampooing, and, although the person
may be scrupulously clean, he will be astonished at the amount of effete
matter removed by this process. The bather then returns through the
various apartments,