The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-01-06
Communication.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 25

Editor Of K6noS75a Telegraph:
Having spent two weeks at the Turk
ish Baths of DR.. Hanson, in this city,
desire through your columns to say a fey
words in regard to them, to the citizen
of Kenosha and vicinity, to whom DR.. Il
is we'll known Hga@F 20 ~ 2
i Centrally located, fronting small parl
on the corner Of Fourth and Sycamor
streets, is a large and handsome double
brick residence, formerly occupied by on,
of the wealthiest citizens of this city
Finished interiorly in the finest manner
land furnished with all the "modern con
veniences," with high and convenient
basement, is to be found the celebrated
Turkish Bath.
| The front basement is occupied as an
office, neatly furnished, and containing a
.1ifting' apparatus for the exercise of the
pa ients and spirometer for the develope-
ment of the lungs Herethe bathers reg
lister their names Passing from here in
to the dressing room, containing alcoves
for each patient, all the clothing is re-
moved, and wrapping the robe around
you, appear ercRda1a6j1le, prepared for the
ordeal through which you are to pass !;
then stalking like ghost into the teps-
daraata,a, you are seated with the feet in
basin of hot water, and with the tempera-
Iture at 1870, taking occasional draughts of
ice water, remain until perspiration has
commenced. You are now prepared for
the "calidarium," where, reclining upon
"a lounge, with wet sponge under the
head, and the thermometer ranging from
$50 to 300, the patient remains until the
perspiration is thorough, such as you
probably never before experienced. Then
placing yourself at full length upon a
marble slab,an attendant puts you through
cleansing process more thorough than
you have ever realized-frst by rubbing
the entire surface of the body with the
hands, and especially manipulating any
portions that are subject to local affec-
tions; then applying soap and the hair
mitten, the body Is relieved of an amount
of effete matter, that would surprise some
clearly persons. Standing erect, the
"spray" is applied, from head to foot, up
on all sides-at first warm. but gradually
becoming colder until it is perfectly cold !;
don't imagine this is unpleasant, for it is
positively refreshing, = The "wiping"
room isthen entered, when the attendant
wipes you thoroughly dry, and taking
you into the cooling" room, or frigadari-
atna seats you in a reclining chair, where
you remain until perfectly cool; then
dressing, you are prepared to enter the
outer world, no matter how cold it may
be, as you have been thoroughly fortified
against the change of temperature, and
feeling like new man.
Now, this processyou may pass through
as well man, simply as a luxury, and
yet receive substantial benefit from it.
But as curative process, nothing has ev-
err been devised that so completely meets
the case as the Turkish Bath The Hot
Air Bath of the Greeks, used 5000 years
ago, in all essential respects was similar
to that popularity known as the Turkish
Bath, and this has come down to us through
the ages, used extensively by the East
ern nations, but greatly improved and
modernized by its introduction into
Great Britain by DR.. Barter, of Dublin.
The fhizosophy of the bath in the treat
ment Of disease may be expressed in a
few words: Nature relieves the surface
of the body from intense heat by perspir-
alton, and by no method can such profuse
perspiration be secured as by subjecting
the body to dry heat Of $50 degrees and
upwards. The pores that have long been
damned (DhysicaZly dammed are opened
the effete matter expelled, the circulation
equalized, and organs that before were
congested are restored to their normal
condition and enabled to resume their
functions; and the result, which drugs
before very imperfectly, if at all, accom-
plished, is now effectively reached by the
aid thus furnished nature, at once so sim
nj a DleaSant and effective
Erasmus Wilson, M. D., than whom
there is no better authority among medi-
cal men, in an address before the British
Medical Society, says: owe are imper
nontihl 1nA To the cnnnlncinn that nunru