The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-25 00:00:00

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scarcely:able. to walk, or .lift his hand,
.9r, turn abut, and
who being carried to the baths, and making frequent u.e
of them, soon recovered his pristine vigour, and was now
a hale, healthy man.. (Applause.) There was also tb's
peculiarity about Turkish baths, that if a person 1.0
into them quite wearied and jaded, and in a melancholic
Mood, he comes out a refreshed and altered man. It
drove,sad grief aWay, it brightened the .dull and deep-
laden eye, it lightened, the heart, And drove the blood
with n. buoyant tiirrenty through, the, veins. This was
all diVing to the Oho great indisputable fad that it was
impossible Co resist the exhilarating effects of oxygen.
The influence Manifested on a person !who- had constant
recourse to the bath he compared to the effect produced
iOn a rdnillY of 4raticd bread, and who,
according to the jocose etlit4 O.t• Pcndyygrpert after
found, floating about the ceiling. I;....iigta9r!), de
talented lecturer proceeded to show the affinity beti..Mq
the sensations of the mind and the physical part of min,
and how any painior pleasure afforded to the latter had
cOri:e.i.kildtag,• effect on the other and nobler organ.
From this itretit '6ll
,t 6 .illtistratp his position, that if
the use of the bath caused n bedellt fe 4.,1/2 body, It must
necessarily 'produce a • similarzestilt oil the tkziid, ifs
pointed out the many advantages that would be entyed
by'a constant ablution'of the body iii the Turkish aths
—perfect and thorough , cleanliness of the skin being
..secured. As an historical illustration of the great value
of this necessary' requirement, he cited a passageirom a
quaint voluine, entitled "The Pillars of Hercules,"
wherein it was 'stated that. amongst , the ancient
Romans, when their population had reached its very
culminating point, and when; as a necessary sequence,
sickness:and disease must be more prevalent, they had
plenty of baths, bat no hospitals—a fact that spoke for
itself, and showed hot high was'the veneration in which
they held the baths.
,He remarked that in the human
. skin there were 700,000,000, pores or outlets for
sudorific matter or perspiration, which would be
equivalent to thirty miles of sewerage. Of the human
frame, and how necessary, therefore, 'was it for man
to attend td the. bleeping of his own body. After
dilating at considernBlb length on the use of the
real Turkish bath, which itiougli ltd 1i p, very simple
affair, was a very. marvellous curative aliedge„tind id
a ordinary health regenerator of both mind
and illustrating the • happy ~cffects it produced.
Gardiner concluded an eloquent and erudite lecture by
stating that though he did not wish to under-rate the
services of medicine, still he .believed 'that the bath
.was a more speedy, more certain, and far more agreeable
than any other sort of treatment that could be adopted
to cure'the countless " ills that flesh is heir to." Above all,
the bath was the preserver of health, it heightened every
charm, the complexion especially became clear, the eyes
brightened, and the whole'person perfectly fragrant. Old
Homer did not speak tod. rhapsodically Of the. heroic
Achilles when he said that, after tiiklng a bath, the
"Invulnerable" appeared to be of a more towering. and
exalted mien, and far nearer to the immolitit gods,
(Loud applause.) • •
The etiAIIII4AN, in proposing a vote •of thanks id
Mr. Gardiner for his able lecture, announced that Dr.
Haughton and Mf. Clatditiet had collie to an. Under-
standing as regards the intandgent. of the. new Turkish
bath which was about being estabill.4lled iii this, town,
and both: these gentlemen were to- hale .d in its
management. (Hear, hear.) He then called the thy
gentlemen present to Subscribe and beCome sharelididefi
in the proposed undertaking, pointing out at the sanid
time its great advantage and-usefulness.
The ineeting.conCluded with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.