Note 8 — THE TURKISH BATH.1
Reading edition
We shall not easily forget the sensations we ourselves experienced on first reclining on such a couch, after emerging from the Turkish bath (as revived by Dr. Barter at his far-famed hydropathic establishment near Blarney), enjoying a luxurious, balmy, and quiet repose, followed by an elasticity of body and mind such as we had never before felt.8 We must here extract from a note in Mr. Urquhart’s pamphlet the following description of the feelings induced by reclining, after the bath, on these delicious couches:—