ONE HUNDRED BATES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 211, 11 September 1897, Page 4 (Supplement)

ONE HUNDRED BATES.

If you Avere asked how many kinds, of baths people take to clean, invigorate, and cure themselves from disease, you would probably say a dozen at the most ; a hundred would be nearer the mark. In addition to the vapour, Turkish, hot, cold, shoAver, and sea baths, there are alcohol baths for reducing the heat of fever ; arsenical baths for curing rheumatism of the joints ; creosote baths for curing skin diseases ; blood baths, consisting of the freshly shed blood of animals ; bog baths, made of peat and warm water; gelatine baths, composed of glue dissolved in soft Avater ; bran baths, borax baths, pine baths, sulphur baths, mustard baths for colds, mercurial baths, mud baths, sheet baths, blanket baths, milk baths to nourish delicate, people. There are eA-en sand baths, in which people lie covered with hot sand for an hour ; and slime baths, made from the gTeen slime of ponds. The Russian, or steam bath, very common in the United States, is far better than the Turkish bath for opening the pores of the skin. And one of the pleasantest oi all is the rain bath, which consists of .a large number of tubes, Avith innumerable perforations. You stand in the centre, and the tiny streams strike from all sides on every inch of your body.