In chapter third we enumerated briefly a few of the ailments likely to
be either entirely removed, or, at all events, alleviated, by the use of
the Turkish Bath.
We think that Sir Erasmus Wilson mentions that terribly distressing
ailment eczema among those which yield to the emollient and cleansing
effects of the bath.
Kidney ailments, and even dropsy itself, have succumbed to its power.
"I have just," writes a medical man, "retired from the post of medical
officer of H.M. Convict Prison at Portland, and my late Assistant
Surgeon has kindly informed me how admirably it acts in kidney
affections, and I am anxious to have one as soon as possible."