Mahomed's Baths, Brighton

            

Mahomed's Baths, Brighton

             
 While Mahomed's establishments were medicated vapour baths rather than Turkish baths, Sake Deen Mahomed was probably the most famous shampooer during his life-time.

'To miss going to Mahomed's [in Brighton], is like going to town and forgetting to take a peep at St Paul's...'
Quoted in: The History of Hove / Judy Middleton. — Chichester : Phillimore, 1979. — p.94

Two years in agony I past...,  written by a friend and presented to Mr Mahomed by Lady Louisa Cornwallis, includes the lines:

The greatest blessing that we know,
In health is said to be;
That blessing, under God I owe,
Oh Mahomed! to thee;
My lips the gratitude shall show,
That in my heart doth glow,
For ah! I feel too well assured,
(Let all deride, and laugh who will,)
That had I never try'd thy skill,
I never had been cured!!'

Shampooing / Sake Deen Mahomed. — Brighton :  E H Creasy, 1832

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