414 Account of the new Hot and Cold Baths at Ramsgate. 
tion brush, to do so conveniently, without exposing ‘any part of 
the body above the surface of the water. Pipes from the reser- 
voirs and boilers, conduct hot and cold water into each, and 
another communicating with the drains allows it to run off after 
being used in a bath. The unsightly apparatus of pipes and 
cocks are here kept entirely out. of view, and the whole apart- 
ment has quite the air of an ancient Roman bath. The dressing- 
rooms attached to each bath are of a very ample size, having a 
sea prospect, and they are fitted up with every thing that can 
administer to the comfort and pleasure of the bather. 
The shower baths are constructed to have a supply either of 
cold or hot water, and the dressing-rooms which are attached to 
them, are furnished in the same manner as the others. 
Vapour baths are also included in these establishments, and 
we understand modelled after those recommended and invented 
by the honourable Mr. Cochrane. From the several contri- 
vances for increasing or decreasng the temperature of the va- 
pour, it can be apphed generally to the whole body, oer topically 
ty any particular part of it, with the greatest certainty and pre- 
cision. Medicated vapour can he generated and applied with 
the same apparatus, and heated air can be introduced into this 
apartment to act as a Russian sweating bath, with the oppor- 
tunity of using at the same time the cold or the hot shower- 
Waths. 
This establishment, however, lias another claim towards being 
unique in kind. S/eam has been applied to heating buildings 
fer the purposes of manufactures, but this is the first successful 
attempt at employing it in a manner combining» the greatest 
elegance with the greatest convenience and certainty. The 
steam is generated in a boiler on the outside of the building, from 
which it is conducted under the floors. by pipes into an elegant 
vase placed in each dressing-room, standing in a niche made in 
the situation commonly occupied by the fire-place... In some 
of the coldest days in February, the temperature of the whole 
building was as high as 69°, and had all the delightful warmth 
of aday in summer. Frem the various contrivances for admitting 
the steam, or stopping it off from any particular part of the 
building, and directing it to any other particular apartment or 
series of apartments, the temperature can be raised at pleasure. 
In an establishment of this kind this mode of heating is a great 
improvement; the time required to trim the fires, and in keeping 
the apartments free from dust, if that is possible in an open fire- 
place, is saved to the attendants: and the invalids experience 
none of that unpleasant feeling occasioned by the opening and 
shutting of doors when dressing or undréssing; and what has 
been so loudly complained of, the unequal temperature of the 
. apartment 
