Note 17 — THE TURKISH BATH.1
Reading edition
If we always breathed pure air, took daily exercise to perspiration, performed daily ablutions, and partook temperately of plain and wholesome food, disease would be almost unknown amongst us. Whenever we depart from these conditions of health, we lay the sure foundation of disease. It has been truly said, that if we took the same care of our own bodies as we do of our horses’, we should enjoy much better health than we are wont. Sir Astley Cooper used to say, that “man did not pay sufficient attention to the grooming of his body.” ↑