re, 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
pattern of those employed upon their own bodies by the ancient Romans.

[Illustration: FIG. 27.

Plan of the Great Northern Railway Company's Turkish Bath for Horses.]

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 scraper, and
wash-leather. On leaving the sudatory chamber, the horse should first be
well scraped with the scraper, carefully sponging, or dousing him, if
necessary, with warm water. Buckets of hot, tepid, and cold water should
then be thrown over him, and having been well rubbed down with the
leather, he should then be covered with a cotton sheet, and his legs
bandaged with cotton bands, the sheets, &c., being gradually removed
after an interval of about a quarter of an hour, and the animal turned
into a shed, or into the open, to cool.

THE END.

INDEX.

A.

PAGE

Air, allowance of, in hot rooms, 81
backflow of, 83
circulation of, in hot rooms, 85
expansion in heating, 82
filters, 67
flues for vitiated, 92
inlets for cold, 67
intake, position of, 68
arrangement of, 69
its changes in the bath, 71
of bath, necessity for dryness of, 85
overheated, 76
passage of, through bath rooms, 70
rapidity of flow of, 82

Apodyterium, the, 4, 13
and frigidarium, combined, 13

B.

Bath, architecture of, 105
ascending shower, 93
back shower, 94
decoration of, 105
elaborate needle, 138
foot, 98
materials for, 105
Mr. Urquhart's cheap private, 120, 123
needle, 93, 94
position of private, 120
preliminary shower, 97
primary object of, 10
public, general requirements of, 9
shower, 92
style of design for, 109
subsidiary apartments of, 14
the, in asylums, 139
the, in hospitals, 139
the "slipper", 127
wave, 95

Baths, ancient and modern, difference between, 10
Roman and Oriental, 2
works on, 3
cheap, 66
private, 125
complete private, 125-127
construction of,