Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 1) (London, 1832)

86 POMPEIANA.

Among others Celsus and Galen are
cited, who, as physicians, directed their pa-
tients in the order to be followed in the use
of the baths ; but nothing as to the plan can
be gained from these doctors, as they differ
as much as the other authors; Celsus re-
commending to his patients first the tepi-
darium, then the caldarium, and lastly the
frigidarium; while Galen prescribes first
the hot air of the laconicum, then the lou-
tron or warm water bath, and then the fri-
gidarium.

The thermse of Pompeii may, perhaps,
be best explained by comparison with the
baths of the Turks and other oriental na-
tions who, succeeding by conquest to the
luxuries of the enervated Greeks and Ro-
mans of the Eastern Empire, seem, as was
most natural, to have retained the institution
of the baths nearly in their original state.

A bather in Turkey first enters a large
apartment of a low temperature, furnished
with couches in recesses, where he undresses
and leaves his clothes, attended by a person
who immediately furnishes him with another
covering formed of long towels or mgigofut,