"having changed to radiating pipes, the cost of fuel was halved and he found the higher temperature obtained to be ‘more bearable and more agreeable to the patients and to himself' "
1.
Also known as the cold water cure. Some aspects of the cure have
survived as part of modern hydrotherapy.
2.
‘Review of Erasmus Wilson’s The Eastern or Turkish bath’ Journal of
Mental Science (1861) pp.210-231
3.
Letter. Charles Lockhart Robertson to David Urquhart. Feb 1863.
Transcribed in Manual of the Turkish bath edited by John Fife
(Churchill, 1865) pp.347-51
4.
Robertson, C L ‘A case of mania, with albuminuria, cured by the Roman
bath’ British Medical Journal (27 Feb 1864) pp.229-30
5.
Letter. Charles Lockhart Robertson to David Urquhart. Feb 1863.
Transcribed in Manual of the Turkish bath edited by John Fife
(Churchill, 1865) pp.347-51
6.
Digby, Anne Madness, morality and medicine: a study of the York
Retreat, 1796-1914 (CUP, 1985) pp.134-5
7.
Letter. David Urquhart to John Fife. 3 Nov 1863. Transcribed in
Consumption arrested by the Turkish bath (Hardwicke, 1864) pp.1-2