Turkish Baths

142 THE TURKISH BATH:
through the washing room into the first hot room.
Without turning round, he may be led into the second
hot room and thence into the washing room again. In
the hot rooms, which are heated by a convoluted stove,
are stocks, wherein, if restive, the animal can be secured.
A similar arrangement is made in the washing room,
where, after undergoing the sweating process, the horse
is
groomed down, an operation that should be performed
in part with an iron strigil, much after the
FIG. 27.
Plan of the Great Northern Railway Company's Turkish Bath
for Horses.
pattern of those employed upon their own bodies by
the ancient Romans.
These equine Turkish baths need be very inexpensive
and simply constructed, though, where it is desired to
do the thing well, glazed bricks should, for the sake
of cleanliness, be used for lining the walls. All that
will be required in the washing rooms is a couple of
draw-off taps with hot and cold water, some pails, a