Now it's compresses and vapour baths for a whole month.

He also patented a portable vapour bath.

Cochrane published several works promoting the use of "vapour baths" or steam baths for medical purposes, with apparatus that he had improved on himself.

In Metcalfe's (1877) work on sanitary reform and all the above-mentioned overlaps, he describes the Chines vapour baths.

He died on 19 Nov 1885 in London, from burn injuries occasioned by the accidental upsetting of the fire heating a vapour bath he was taking.

Fragments of its ancient sculptures are still to be seen, and in 1847 remains of Roman vapour baths, well preserved, were discovered just below the New Castle.

On the south bank are the Stufe di San Germano, natural sulphureous vapour baths, and close by is the Grotta del Cane.

"Vapour baths were in use among the Celtic tribes, and the sweat-house was in general use in Ireland down to the 18th, and even survived into the 19th century.

Before this, the United States, like many other places, had several Russian vapour baths, one of the first being that opened in 1861 by M.Hlasko at his Natatorium at 219 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia.

Shampoo was first introduced in Britain by a Bihari entrepreneur named Sake Dean Mahomed, he first familiarized the shampoo in Basil Cochrane's vapour baths while working there in the early 19th century.

His earliest such works on this topic outlined the relationship between various applications of water, vapour baths, the action of heat and cold through such media on the action of the skin, and the relationship between this and health in general.

"Indeed," Banting marvelled, "one of the ablest authorities as a physician in the land told me he had gained one pound in weight every year he attained manhood, and was not surprised at my condition, but advised more bodily exercise - vapour baths, and shampooing."

Dean Mahomed introduced the practice to Basil Cochrane's vapour baths while working there in London in the early 19th century, and later, together with his Irish wife, opened "Mahomed's Steam and Vapour Sea Water Medicated Baths" in Brighton, England.

He described the treatment in a local paper as "The Indian Medicated Vapour Bath (type of Turkish bath), a cure to many diseases and giving full relief when every thing fails; particularly Rheumatic and paralytic, gout, stiff joints, old sprains, lame less, aches and pains in the joints".