The Pedestrian's Record

66 the pedestrian's record. can be obtained without violentexercise, infact, when in luxurious repose ; and for this reason, some thirty years ago, its use was strongly advocated for young horses in training. Why not for young men when studying fortheir athletic firsts ? The advantageof the hot-air bath consistsin that it is a purifier of the skin, and its adoption takes nothing out of a man, but actually invigorates him ; and, moreover, isalso a strong adjuvantin the treatment of many diseases, which it will not be our province to consider in this work. Suffice it to say that the Turkish bath is a great acquisition to the trainers both of men and horses, i.e., if it is used with wisdom and discretion. A gentleman at the commencement of the current century wrotehis experiences in Turkey ofthe hot- air bath :" The sensations after steeping and mace­ rating ina hot-air chamber, and the after process of shampooing, are certainly very different from the sensations ofweakness ;they are delightful, for in the bath health is admitted at every pore, while the latter process imparts to every particular joint its full freedom and all its latitude of motion ; the whole gives an ease, a pliability, a suppleness, and an activity equallyinvigorating to the mind and body, which may serve bothto correct the vulgar prejudices of the relaxing effects of warm bathing, andto con­ firm the justness ofthe inference the ancients drew of the mens sana in corpore sano" Baths, cold, vapour, warm, and hot-air, are,under proper advice, serviceable to all, each will cleanse the skin, but the hot-