9. Section of Hot Room, showing Foul-air Conduit 72 10. A Fireclay Heating Apparatus 74 11. Longitudinal Section of Sudatory Chambers 84 12. A Shampooing Basin 90 13. Valve for Regulating Temperature of Water 91 14. A Needle Bath 94 15. Spray, Wave, and Douche Baths 95 16. Regulating Valves for Needle, Douche, &c. 96 17. Bather's Shower Bath 99 18. Section and Plan of an Enamelled Iron Ceiling 107 19. Plans of Plunge Baths 112 20. Section of Benches in Hot Rooms, and in Cooling Room Divans 115 21. Furniture of a Turkish Bath 117 22. Plan of Mr. Urquhart's Small Private Bath and of the Hot Room at Sir Erasmus Wilson's Bath at Richmond Hill 119 23. Methods of constructing Turkish Baths in existing Houses 124 24. A complete Private Turkish Bath 126 25. Design for a Private Turkish Bath 130, 131 26. Plan of the Baths at the Hotel Mont Dore, Bournemouth 135 27. Plan of the Great Northern Railway Company's Turkish Bath for Horses 142 THE TURKISH BATH. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. Since the revival of the bath of antiquity, and its introduction into this country under the name of the Turkish bath, this method of bathing has become very generally adopted; and although onward progress is rendered less rapid than it might be, by the wide-spread popular ignorance that ascribes an element of danger to the bath, erroneous impressions are being gradually removed, and the continual building of new baths testifies to the manner in which the institution flourishes on British soil. To what extent the delusion concerning the supposed danger connected with this form of bathing is to be ascribed to popular ignorance and prejudice, or to the fact that baths of unsuitable design and construction, and of faulty heating and ventilation, are put before the public, it would be hard to say. Certain it is that the latter cause has done much--very much--injury.