es more profuse
perspiration, and is therefore more depurating, or cleansing, in its
effects. (2.) It does not relax the system, but rather produces a tonic
effect, and fewer precautions are, therefore, necessary to guard against
taking cold after employing it. (3.) The Turkish bath can be better
ventilated than the Russian. While the air is heated to a high
temperature, it can be readily kept pure by constant changes. In the
Turkish hot-rooms, or _sudatorium_, of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute, provision is made for bringing underneath the floors a
current of fresh air from without. This column of fresh air is carried
under the centre of each room where it escapes from the conductor, is
warmed, and rises into the room, from which extraction of air is
constantly going on through registers opening into tubes, communicating
with large ventilated shafts which are kept hot, summer and winter, to
insure a draught through them. In this manner, thorough ventilation of
our Turkish hot-rooms is insured.

The Turkish bath not only combines a most agreeable luxury with a
decidedly invigorating and tonic influence, but also, by its stimulating
power, induces proper glandular and cellular activity, producing a
healthy condition.

Sallowness, tan, and freckles, the result of local or general increase
of the pigment granules of the skin, soon disappear under the
stimulating influence and regular use of the Turkish bath, which causes
rapid development of new and transparent cells. The colored granules are
thus gradually replaced and the skin assumes a beautiful clearness and
purity of appearance, which transcends immeasurably the unhealthy hue
that follows the frequent employment of the various cosmetics.

The value of an agent which thus improves the general health, insures
immunity from coughs, colds, and other diseases, and at the same time
produces a healthy and permanent beauty of complexion, is at once
apparent. The purity of person, perfect circulation, increase of healthy
nutrition and glandular activity produced by the Turkish bath, serve to
make it of the most lasting utility.

The eminent Dr. Madden has said, and his experience is confirmed by
every regular patron of the bath, that, "Wherever the Turkish bath was a
national institution the hair of the women was peculiarly luxurious and
beautiful. I can vouch for it that the use of the bath rendered the
complexion more delicate and brilliant; that the eyes bec