380 Noiices respecting New Books. : 
< The large room, in which the baths are placed, is thirty feet 
long, by twenty feet wide ; the cieling is fifteen feet high ; and 
the whole is lighted by a dome light from above. 
** From the entrance at the portico, a few gentle and easy 
steps conduct into the servants’ lobby, through which you pass 
into the bath room ; this is divided by partitions, twelve feet high, 
into four small chambers, the remaining area forming a sort of 
waiting room,—large, well lighted, and provided with seats and 
a table, where the bathers may amuse the:nselves with a book 
until the bath is prepared ; or, after the use of the bath, remain 
in a middle temperature previously to exposing themselves to the 
air. 
“ In two corners of the room there are large reservoirs ; they are 
placed close up to the cieling, and are inclosed by partitions ; 
they contain each about four hundred gallons, the one of hot, and 
the other of cold water, which is conducted by pipes into each 
of the bath rooms, terminating in the baths, which are made of 
copper, and japanned in such a manner as to imitate the verd 
antique marble. From each of the baths there is a waste pipe, 
which carries off the water when done with in the bath ; these 
unite into one common pipe, which conveys it through the water- 
closets of the house. Thus the bather sees the water drawn fresh 
from the reservoirs for his own use, and may see it run to waste 
if he chooses. By these means the impossibility of having a bath 
which has been used is complete. Adjoining one of the warm 
baths there is a shower bath containing twelve gallons, which is 
charged with hot or cold water at the wish of the patient. Into 
this bath also are conveyed the hot or cold douches. 
“€ The warm water reservoir is provided with a false bottom, 
about two inches from the real one ; between these two bottoms 
a current of strong steam is thrown by the means of a small 
boiler placed in a room below the bath room; the water above 
the false bottom absorbs the heat of the vapour, condenses it 
into water, which falls back into the boiler, where it again re- 
ceives a proportion of heat, and carries it back to the false bot- 
tom. By this process the water becomes heated in the reser- 
voir to about 100 degrees of Fahrenheit’s thermometer ;: it pro- 
_ bably might be carried higher. This is as high as I have had it, 
and is much more than an adequate heat for any purpose of 
bathing. The main steam’ pipe which passes from the boiler to 
the reservoir, goes through the vapour bath room, from whence 
the steam is drawn in any manner which may be required ; it is 
made to pass in any direction, and may be impregnated with 
any substances that might be desired. The various vapour 
douches, jets, and other modes of locally applying this power to 
different parts of the body, are so arranged as to be under the 
guidance 
