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appropriate ventilation, and carrying a brick flue, protected 

 by wooden covering, round three sides of the chamber. 

 There should be ample provision for draining off water, which 

 may be used in washing the animal whilst in the hot cham- 

 ber; and outside the latter, provision might be made with a 

 common hose, for a very effectual cold water douche. 



METHOD OF USING THE EOMAN BATH. 



Any animal should be tolerably warm before being sub- 

 jected to a very high temperature. This is not essential 

 but desirable. The chamber should not be raised above 120 

 or 130 Fahr. An abundance of fresh water should be pro- 

 vided for the animal to drink. The purity of the air in the 

 hot-air chamber should be insured by good ventilation ; this 

 I hold to be of the very highest importance ; moreover, if the 

 animal urinates, a pail of water should be at hand to clean 

 off that which in an apartment with an elevated temperature 

 would rapidly rise in the form of noxious vapour through 

 the atmosphere which the animal is breathing, and which 

 should be as pure as possible. Any excrement voided should 

 be at once removed. 



When the animal is freely sweating, scrapers should be used, 

 and an alkaline wash, composed of a little washing soda in a 

 pailful of warm water, may be poured over the skin. If it 

 be a parasitic skin disease for which the bath is used, an 

 abundance of soft soap may be smeared over the skin, espe- 

 cially where diseased. 



After twenty minutes stay in the hot chamber, the animal 

 may be taken out, and receive at once a complete shower of 

 the coldest water. This operation should not last above a 

 minute or two, and then scrapers and rubbers should be 

 used to dry the animal; the latter may be kept comfortable 

 with a loose cloth over its body for an hour or two. 



