Turkish and Other Baths: A Guide to Good Health and LongevityStables, Gordon
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Turkish and Other Baths: A Guide to Good Health and Longevity
Stables, Gordon
Baths, Turkish
Well, now, as to indigestion. As the reader knows, the whole internal
surface of the body is lined with a mucous membrane, which is analagous
to the skin or external covering, and as the one is so will the other
be; mucous indigestion, therefore, it may be clearly perceived is
averted by the use of the Bath. But indigestion may proceed from loss
of nerve power, or from a badly acting liver or spleen, or from weakness
of the heart, etc. And the Bath strengthens and tones the nervous
system far more than any tonic we wot of, moreover its constant use
makes the work which the liver and spleen have to perform, mere play, so
to speak; and if the Bath invigorates muscle--and we know it does--it
must act as a roborant or tonic to the heart itself, which is composed
for the most part of muscular tissues.
Many people produce a species of irritable indigestion, by the use of
stimulants, for this the Anglo-Turkish bath is an almost certain cure,
as it relieves internal congestions, steadies the nerves and produces
refreshing sleep.
Many poisons are generated in the system, to which if free vent be not
given by means of the pores of a healthily acting skin, mischief is sure
sooner or later to arise, such mischief for instance as gout and
rheumatism, to which reference has already been made. But the condition
of the kidneys is seldom or never studied by anyone and yet if they do
not act sufficiently well to expel urea from the blood, a more or less
injurious effect is caused upon the brain and nerve centres. This the
periodical use of the Anglo-Turkish bath, would tend to remove.
We all know the demoralising effect that the first glass of spirits is
said to have upon a man inclined to the abuse of intoxicants; it so
affects his brain that he no longer knows, or he disregards right form
wrong as far as his health is concerned. But a similar demoralisation
of brain tissue, may be produced by poisons positively generated in the
system; at least this is our opinion. Those, for example, who have been
given to alcohol, often keep "steady" as they phrase it for a month or
months, then suddenly or gradually, as the case may be, break out again.
This is doubtless caused by the play of some accumulated
system-propagated poison on the brain and nerves. This poison may be
urea, or it may be some acid, it matters not, it is in the blood and it
ought to be eliminated and we earnestly advise those, who would be
abstainers but who find it difficult to long remain so, to fly at once
for relief to the hot-air bath, whenever the "_tempter_," as platform
orators call it, seems to urge them to take once more to stimulants.
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