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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
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