The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-12-21
COOKS A SICK MAN WELL
PUT INTO A HOT STOVE ANo
BAKED UNTIL CURED.
The Theory of the Dry. Hot Air Process
is 90 Intensity the Beneits of the
Turkish and Similar Baths - Danger
of Roasting tho Patient.

Turkish and Similar Baths - Danger
of Roasting tho Patient.
English publications are giving some
space 10 what they call the baking
cure" by which sick man is described
as being put into n stove and cooked
until he is we'll" A hospital devoted
TO this treatment has just been cstab-
lished at London. and the idea seems
TO he wholly novel over there.
In this city, on the other hand. where
II Is known as thermaerotherapy-a
word etymologlcally unimpeachable
hut to be found only in the newest die
tionarics--also called the treatment by
superhcated air. Bellevue has used the
process several years. and private
hospital on the west side of the city
practices II almost exclusively. An
other such institution exists i'm Phila-
delpha. and still others in Cincinnati
and Chicago.
The theory of the dry-hot-air cure
Is to intensity the benefits of Turkish
and similar baths. The patients head
heing outside the machine. and In at
mospherc of ordinary temperature. his
body can stand much more heat than
II the exposure thereto was complete.
AS the treatment is essentially local,
provided nothing is the matter with his
bead. there is no need for man to
breathe other air than he is used TO.
There Is nothing startling in the gen
cral conception of calorific therapeu-
tics. The hot-water bag is one express
sion of the principle. and the homely
mustard plaster another. The ruins
of Athens, Alexandria. Bagdad. Cairo,
Constanrinople, Damascus. Fcrcula-
neum. Pompeii, and Rome contain the
remains of hot-air baths unequalled
to-day. Among the famous baths of
The Eternal City. those of Agrippa,
Caracalla, Diocletian. and Titus. none
was without It's cnldarium. or hot-air
chamber. Hippocrates, CELSIUS and
Gaien cxtolled hot air as therapeutic
agent. The Turkish bath Is really "A
Roman revival. Constantine intro
duced II ir,o Byzan,ium after his con-
quest.
The INTERSECTION OF the thermaero-
therapic apparatus at once raised the
temperature 10 which IL is possiDie 10
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