Bathing
Bathing is the immersion of the body in fluid, normal water, or
an aqueous solution, such as the Asses' milk favored by 
Cleopatra
VII from Egypt. Some spa facilities also provide bathing in various
forms of liquids such as chocolate or mud, and there have been examples
of bathing in the champagne. Additionally, revealing the body to
open air is sometimes measured bathing, for instance, in sunbathing
or in moon bathing.
Hydrotherapy :
The oldest form of medical treatment knows hydrotherapy, formerly known as hydropathy. It involves the use of water for calming pains and treating these diseases.
The appliances and arrangements by way of which heat and cold are brought to bear on the economy are:
- Packings, Hot And Cold, General And Local, Sweating And Cooling
- Hot Air And Steam Baths
- General Baths, Of Hot Water And Cold
- Sitz, Spinal, Head And Foot Bath
- Bandages (or known as compresses), Wet And Dry
- Fomentations And Poultices, Hot And Cold, Sinapisms, Stupes, Rubbings And Water Potations, Hot And Cold
Packings :
The full pack contains of a wet sheet enveloping one’s body, with a number of dry blankets packed strongly over it, plus a macintosh covering or may not. In an hour or less these are soon removed and a common bath administered. The pack is an offshoot, tranquilizer, sudorific and even stimulator of cutaneous excretion. There are numerous alterations of it, particularly the cooling pack, where the wrappings are actually loose and scanty, permitting evaporation, and the application of imprecise time, the sheet being again wet as it dries. This is of great value in prolonged for febrile conditions.
Hot Air And Steam Baths :
Hot air baths is the chief of which the Turkish (properly, the Roman) bath carries of two or more chambers ranging in the temperature from I 20 to 2f2 or higher, but normally used at 150 for curative purposes. Exposure is from twenty minutes up to two hours according to the result required, and is followed by a common bath, and rarely also by soaping and shampooing. It is stimulating, derivative, depurative, sudorific and even alterative, impressively promoting tissue change by way of increasing the natural waste and repair. It determines the blood to the surface, dipping internal congestions is a strong diaphoretic and through the limits of heat and cold is an effectual anxious and vascular refreshment and tonic. Morbid growths and emissions, as even the uraemic, gouty and rheumatic diathesis, are helpfully influenced by it. The full pack and Turkish bath have amid them usurped the place and improved the function of the one time familiar hot bath. The Russian or steam bath and the light bath are very prehistoric and also inferior varieties of the modern Turkish bath, the atmosphere of that cannot be too dry and pure.
General Baths :
General baths consist of rain (or needle), spray (or rose), shower, shallow, plunge, douche, wave and other common morning sponge baths with the dripping sheet and hot and cold sponging are combinations as a rule of hot and cold water. They are inspiring, boost, copied and detergent.
Local Baths :
Local baths encompass the sitz (or sitting), douche (or spouting), spinal, foot and with head baths of hot or cold water, singly or in the combination, successive or could be alternate. The sitz, head and footbaths are normally used flowing on occasion. The application of cold by Leiters tubes that is effective for reducing inflammation (e.g. in meningitis and in sunstroke), in these a network of any metal or India rubber tubing is then fitted to the part affected, and this cold water is kept continuously flowing through them. Rapid alternations of hot and cold water have a good effect in vascular stasis and lethargy of the nervous system and for absorbents, yielding valuable results in local congestions and chronic inflammations.
Bandages :
Bandages (or compresses) are made of two kinds, cooling, of wet material left bare for vanishing, it is used in local inflammations or during fevers; and heating, of the same, covered with any waterproof material, used in congestion, external or could be internal, for short or long periods. Poultices, warm, of bread, linseed, bran, &c., distorted but twice in the twenty-four hours, are the same in action with the heating bandage and it is superior only in the greater warmth and resulting vital activity their closer application to the skin ensures.
Fomentations :
Fomentations and poultices, hot or cold, sinapisms, stupes, rubefacients, irritants, frictions, kneadings, calisthenics, gymnastics, electricity, &c., are additions largely employed.
Reasons For Bathing
Most bathing is done in the hot water or hot steam. However, splash baths function like a cold shower to assist people cool off on any hot day. A jogger is shown, in this many exposure picture, running through the Dundas Square splash pad to cool down.
Bathing serves several purposes:
- Hygiene and the tidy physical look of cleanliness.
- Decontamination from chemical, biological, nuclear or few other exposure-type hazards.
- Recreation
- Therapy (e.g. hydrotherapy), healing, and for relaxation (e.g. Blessed Rainy Day)
- Religious, or, less frequently, other ceremonial rites
Celebration and socialization for e.g. running through fountains after winning the World Series, or jumping through a hole cut in the ice over a lake on the New Year's Eve. After Canada won the World Cup hockey game in the year 2004 September 14th, hundreds of euphoric fans splashed around in the Dundas Square fountains, which is also known as "Times Square North". Some brought chairs with them and sat for 15 minutes or more at right on top of the fountain sprays. Additionally, the requirement (either by social convention, or by inconvenience of having wet clothes) of removing at least some clothing to bathe, reduces the formality of the situation. This is said to allow the people to get to know one another better.
Ensuring people are free of few items such as weapons or other contraband. In Chicago, Russian baths are very safe meeting place for rival gang leaders. Weapons are difficult to hide on a nearly naked body. If the meeting resulted in settlement, the gangs will meet upstairs for bagels, cream cheese and borscht. Many homeless covers and almost all prisons have intake ability or other intake process that includes a supervised shower with change of clothes to make sure that no illegal imports or contamination enters the facility.
Bathing is normally done in any bath (i.e. a place designed for bathing), but might also be done in other places not specifically intended for bathing, such as rooftops (sunbathing and wind bathing), a lake, river, or could be at sprinkler connected to a garden hose.
One town known for its baths is Bath (Aquae Sulis), a Roman city at England well known for curative hydrothermal springs, and most lately for the Bath Spa Project consisting of a rooftop pool ignoring the city of Bath, plus four circular clear glass steam baths.
Kinds Of Baths
There are various kinds of baths that include:
- Private Baths - Bathtub
- Public Baths
- Whirlpool Baths
- Swimming Pools (also known as Swimming Baths)
- Shower Baths
- Steam shower Baths
- Sauna or Infrared Sauna Baths
- Decontamination Baths
- Hot Baths
- Cold Baths
A Private Bath is generally a bathtub only for one person,
often found in any privacy of one's own bathroom. A public bath,
such as a municipal swimming bath (e.g. the Roman thermae), might
be used for leisure bathing. Some municipal swimming baths may even
have steam baths placed near the main swimming bath.
A Shower Bath is a system that pours water down
on a bather from above, other than having the bather lower him,
or herself into the water. It has the reward of being more space
and water efficient.
A Steam Bath is a hot room where bathers sit and
a hot steam at a temperature of about 49°C (120°F) is forced
into the room.
A Sauna Bath is a bath of dry heat, and thus not
actually a bath according to the definition of bathing, other than
the fact that at times water is thrown on the rocks, which form
the thermal ballast of the sauna heater. This results in a steam
bath effect.
