In 1866, Charles Hamilton Macknight built a Turkish bath which still survives—on his property, Dunmore, in the Western District of Victoria. Macknight’s great interest at that time was the breeding of merino sheep, despite the locality making them prone to attacks of fluke. But on 7 October 1867, he wrote in his journal that he had successfully run sheep through the bath, and ‘effectively killed the ticks at 180°.’