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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



PliysioIo?y of the Turkish Bath.— Most 



accounts of the Turkish bath have been 

 confined to general descriptions of the de- 

 tails of the process, and of the sensations 

 experienced during its use ; while compara- 

 tively httle attention has until lately been 

 paid to the more important consideration of 

 its influence on the bodily functions. To 

 supply this need, Mr. William James Flem- 

 ing, M. B., Lecturer on Physiology in Glas- 

 gow, began some years since a series of 

 careful experiments with the action of the 

 bath on his own person. These were con- 

 tinued down to a recent period, and we now 

 have the results of the investigation in the 

 form of a valuable paper published in vol. 

 xiii. of the " Journal of Anatomy and Physi- 

 ology." 



To those not acquainted with this form 

 of bath it will be sufficient to say that the 

 essential part of the process consists in the 

 immersion of the body in dry air at a tem- 

 perature varying from 130° to 200° Fahr. 

 for from half an hour to an hour generally, 

 and subsequent douching with cold water. 



Mr. Fleming's experiments were all made 

 between lunch and dinner, usually from 4 

 to 6 p. M., in a bath heated by Constantine's 

 system. This is an arrangement of stoves 

 by which a constant current of pure air is 

 drawn from the outside atmosphere, heated 

 by passing through a species of oven, and 

 driven into one of the apartments of the 

 bath with such force that it traverses the 

 whole suite of rooms, parting with some of 

 its heat in each, and ultimately escaping 

 from the last into the outer air again. By 

 this means not only the air for breathing 

 but also that in contact with the skin is 

 constantly renewed, so that a layer of wa- 

 tery vapor does not, as in all baths heated 

 with stationary air, soon cover the body, 

 and thus convert the bath into a vapor one. 

 The experiments usually began with a heat 

 of about lYO' Fahr. for a few minutes, in 



