p.28

26 SPARTA TURKISH BATH INSTITUTE.

any visible benefit. The physician in attendance upon her, at length recommended trying the Turkish Bath. The first, second, and third bath produced no other effect than to render the parts paralyzed to some extent sensitive to the tough. After this, each succeeding bath resulted in improving her condition, and the sixth or seventh one enabled her to stand upon her feet, and to use her arms and hands. Ten baths were taken, and she has completely recovered and has since been perfectly well, and in the full use of the limbs which were so long paralyzed. With this experience in our family, our faith in the Turkish Bath system is unbounded.

SPARTA TURKISH BATH INSTITUTE.

We claim that we have one of the best, and in many particulars, the best, institution of this kind in the country. The apartments were constructed under our own personal supervision, after years of experience and study, especially for this purpose, and and work in perfect harmony, every apartment is so arranged that ventilation, temperature and water, can be regulated instantly; with many little improvements, which do away with some of the disagreeable features of most Turkish Baths. Although we wish it understood that we make a specialty of the Turkish Bath, other forms of baths and treatment are employed when necessary. We do not claim to cure everybody. And therefore must necessarily be guarded in giving any positive opinion to this effect. The Institution was opened in October, 1870, and since that time has been in successful operation summer and winter, having given over fifteen thousand baths, and in a large majority of cases, the bathers were suffering from the effects of long standing diseases that had baffled all ordinary medical treatment. In many instances the treatment has acted lime magic, the patient being cured by a few baths. In those of long standing more time was required, scarce one has left without having received material aid. It has been found that in diseases of a chronic inactive nature, the treatment has had the effect to rouse up the symptoms and for a time make them more acute; patients should not mistake these feelings and think they are being injured, for the old medical adage that an "aggravation is equivalent to cure," will prove infallible in such cases. I am decidedly of the opinion that no severe chronic disease can be cured without the appearance, sooner or later, of these aggravated symptoms. The alternative properties of the water have an apparent effect of this kind, especially in those diseases commonly known as "diseases of the blood." It is not uncommon to see those under treatment break out with large sores and eruptions. No one will deny the purifying results of these symptoms; then why of others? It is only the treatment assisting nature to eradicate the latent poison. It has been thoroughly demonstrated that