"2000 years ago, the Romans, and later the Ottoman Turks, used an underfloor hypocaust which heated the air in each room to a level dependent on its distance from the furnace."
1.
A Brief history of the Celts / Peter Berresford Ellis. — Rev. pbk. ed. —
London : Robinson, 2003
2.
The Pillars of Hercules, or, a narrative of travels in Spain and Morocco
in 1848 / David Urquhart. — London : Bentley, 1850
3.
In a postscript to: The Turkish bath, with a view to its introduction in
the British Dominions / David Urquhart. — London : David Bryce, 1856. —
(Chapters from The Pillars of Hercules edited by Richard Barter)
4.
'For health and pleasure: the Turkish bath in Victorian Ireland' /
Teresa Breathnach Victorian Literature and Culture (2004) p.165
5.
Improvements in heating and ventilating buildings, and in apparatus
connected therewith / Richard Barter. — London : E & S, 1859. — (Letters
Patent: 1859, 22th January; no.208)
6.
See, for example: 'The Turkish bath' / G F Bodington Lancet (26 Jan
1861);
'Liverpool Architectural Society' Building News (15 Feb 1861) pp.143-5;
'The Anglo-Roman or Turkish bath' / Francis Drake Builder (8 Jun 1861)
p.388
7.
'Constructions of Turkish baths as a social reform for Victorian
society; the case of the Jermyn Street Hammam' / Nebahat Avcioğlu
In: The Hidden iceberg of architectural history. — Society of Architectural
Historians of Great Britain, 1998 p.68
8.
See, for example: 'The Turkish bath' / Thomas Garlike Lancet (2 Mar
1861) pp.225-6;
'The Hot-air bath' / B W Richardson British Medical Journal (2 Feb 1861)
pp.114-5
9.
'David Urquhart and the role of travel literature in the introduction of
Turkish baths to Victorian England' / Nebahat Avcioğlu In:Interpreting
the orient: travellers in Egypt and the Near East / edited by Paul and
Janet Starkey. — New York : Ithaca Pr, 2001. — p.70
10.
'Liverpool Architectural Society: lecture on Turkish baths' / W H Hay
Builder (16 Feb 1861) p.106
11.
Thomas Moore's popular book-length poem, published in 1817
12.
'Transactions of the committees: Wakefield' Free Press (27 May 1857)
p.344
13.
'The Turkish bath' / R H Goolden Lancet (26 Jan 1861) pp.95-7
(Letter on proposed Turkish baths at St Thomas's Hospital, with author's
letter to the hospital's Treasurer appended.)
14.
Letter from Henry Butcher to David Urquhart, February 1866. — Balliol
Coll, Oxf: Urquhart Bequest Box 10:I G.23
15.
'Northern lectures, debates, and Turkish baths' / George Jacob Holyoake
Reasoner (3 Oct 1858)
16.
'Death in a Turkish bath at Limerick' / Thomas Westropp Lancet (11 May
1861) p.472
17.
'For health and pleasure: the Turkish bath in Victorian Ireland' /
Teresa Breathnach Victorian Literature and Culture (2004) p.163