6io Of the Salubrity of Warm Bathing. 



The two small rooms may be distinguished by call- 

 ing one of them the bath-room and the other the 

 dressing-room. 



If it be required to heat the two rooms in a very 

 short time, the one with vapour, and the other with 

 dry air equally warmed and perfectly free from all 

 disagreeable smells, this may be done by the following 

 simple contrivance : Let a cylinder of very thin cop- 

 per, about eight inches in diameter and five feet in 

 length, be placed horizontally under the sofa in the 

 dressing-room, and let a steam-pipe from the boiler be 

 laid into it, with another pipe for carrying off the 

 water resulting from the condensation of the steam 

 in it. By admitting steam into this tube, the air in 

 the room will soon be warmed, without any watery 

 vapour being mixed with it ; and by admitting steam 

 into the bath-room, and, allowing it to mix with the air 

 of that room, a vapour-bath will be formed, and in a 

 very few minutes will be ready for use. 



A small quantity of cold water may then be ad- 

 mitted into the bathing-tub, and, the steam being 

 turned into it, it will soon be made warm enough to be 

 used for washing, after the steam-bath has been used. 



The passage from the bath-room into the dressing- 

 room will be attended with no danger from cold ; and 

 it will be found very pleasant to dress and repose in a 

 warm room, where the air is pure and not charged 

 with vapour, after coming out of the water or out of 

 a vapour-bath. 



If there should be any apprehension that either the 

 bath-room or the dressing-room might be too much 

 heated by the smoke from the boiler passing con- 

 tinually through the flues under the pavement, a canal, 



