Turkish Baths

136 THE TURKISH BATH:
bathing establishment of the hydropathic type, as well
as complete arrangements
for the administration of the
pine cure. These baths include a Turkish bath, with
three hot rooms, a shampooing room, and cooling room,
connected by an anteroom with the suite of miscellaneous
bath rooms of the gentlemen's department. The
latter comprise a room for the tonic water baths, such
as the needle, douche, sitz, hip, and wave ;
a room or
" hall
" for the inhalation of pine vapour, whilst in a bath
of condensed steam ;
and a room for the administration
of the Mont Dore cure, consisting of the application of
pulverised Mont Dore water, or spray, to the eye, nose,
or ear, as may be required, this room being also used
for the inhalation of dry pine. In addition are a range
of slipper baths, in comfortably fitted bath rooms, for the
purposes of electric and medicated baths,
such as those
of pine extract, sulphur, iodine, &c., &c., and for ordinary
hot and cold spring-water
and salt-water baths. In
connection are arranged dressing and reposing rooms,
besides necessary subsidiary apartments. A somewhat
similar suite of rooms is
arranged for ladies on the other
side of the block. There is no separate Turkish bath,
however ; certain days of the week are set apart exclusively
for ladies' use. The steam boilers, which supply
the steam to the vapour baths and pine-vapour baths,
and the water super heaters, as well as the hotel lift and
pumping machinery, are arranged in
a basement under
the stairs, anteroom, tepidarium, and shampooing
room.
It will be seen that the compact little Turkish bath,
which was arranged under the direction of the late