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Turkish Bath

a popular form of hot air bath, in which the patient, after being subjected for some little time to a considerable temperature, is vigorously rubbed down, and is then conducted through a series of cooling chambers till he has regained his normal temperature.

All secretions and accretions are thus completely removed from the skin, which is left free to perform its functions healthily. a TURKOMANS, nomadic Tartar people occupying a territory stretching between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Aral, the khanates of Khiva and Bokhara, Afghanistan, and Persia. They do not form a single nation, but are divided into numerous tribes or clans.

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