The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-17
oooD ron BEIsIs As WELLAs MAN.
The Remarkable Effect Of Turkish Baths m
Horses, Cows and sheep.

Dr. Charles Sheppard of Columbia
Heights, Brooklyn, who was the first person to
introduce Turkish Baths in this country said
yesterday that the baths had been found to be
SO beneficial TO race horses, mich cows, bulls,
sheep, stations, and rheumatic and diseased
animals, that he thought that before a great
while some person would open a large bathing
establishment In New York Brooklyn for
animals. some years ago Mr. Is. T. Benton built
a large Turkish bath in Ray ymond street for his
horses and found that IL greatly added TO their
usefulness. A gentleman who had two horses
in the livery stable where the bath was, ceased
to work them because they had grown TO be
rheumatic and he turned them over to Mr.. Rem
ton saying that he might have the use OF them
for the winter II he cured them. MIR. Benton
gave them several Turkish baths and they were
well aud strong again =" In loAj'' said
Dr. Sheppard, IL went to SEQ Capt.
Mallard, at Port Arlington, ireland, twenty
miles from Dublin. and found that he had on
his estate tWurtury Iui Ai.h bath. the hrsi hoor
Of which he used for his horses, and the second
for hi. family. III kept "A large number of cows
and sheep, and gave them regular baths. lie
said that he could always tell by the COWS mix
when the bath had been omitted bathing gave
the milk IA swoeter richer taste. The tempera-
ture of the bath was about li5 degrees, the same
as that for A human body and the animals were
allowed to stand In the heated room, and sweat.
Then they were rubbed and washed with cold
water. A discussed hefer in his place was cured
ductive COW. The good effects OF the bath were
noticed In the saving Of mortality, and the cur
Ing OF sickness in young stock, IN fortify-
ing horses engaged In ploughlng Or
draught. and In increasing flesh and milk
in cows, and in increasing, the pro,
ductlyeness Of stock. The cattle became fond
Of the bath, and one COW especially used to hook
at the door with her horns when she saw other
animals 90 la. The effect OF the bath was TO re-
lax the tissues and to throw on the debris OF the
| system. one night Capt Mallard's son went 10
| a bali and left the horses and the driver out In
the cold. When they reached home they were
stin and used up. AS late as IL was the coach
| man took the horses into the bath UOr the fires
| were never allowed to die out and stayed with
| them. The bath restored both driver and horses,
| Whom the epiZootiu was raging In New YORK,
| Coleman Il Nolk, firm employing many horses
| cured valuable pair by giving them Russian
bath. They boxed up a stall and turned or
| steam from the engine room. My belief Is that
| a hot-air bath would have been bettor.
| Tho Doctor thinks that tho fashionable race
| courses will some day have Turkish baths for
| the trained horses, and no wonders that fancy
| stock breeders have not already provided their
| farms with them. Two years ago, whom hydro
| phObia was prevalent, he cured George Wagner,
| a Prospect Park labOrer, Of the bite Of mad
dog by thirty strong baths. lie thinks that the
| same process would cure blOOdod aud valuable
| animals that have been bitten.