Turkish Baths

58 TEE TURKISH BATH:
wheel driven by a motor of some sort, and running so
as to exhaust the vitiated air. The means does not
so much matter so long as the end be gained, and an
ample supply of cool air obtained. A warm, close
" cooling room " is worse than useless. In such places
the bather will break out into renewed perspiration,
and lie perspiring for hours, and become greatly
weakened thereby, with a good chance of taking a chill
on leaving the establishment.
Cooling rooms will always remain sufficiently warm
in all weathers if
they be in any ordinary relation to
the heated apartments but in the
; height of summer
care is required to keep them sufficiently cool. Where
simple, everyday precautions will not suffice, the air
itself must be cooled, either by passing it through a cold
chamber or over ice-boxes in inlet tubes, or through
a water-spray. Only in exceptional cases, however, is
it
necessary to resort to such measures, as, contrary to
the teachings of theorists, it has been found in practice
that the proper temperature for the cooling room of
a hot-air bath varies in different states of the weather,
and should not remain constant all the year round.