Baths are either artificial or natural, both have their special uses in this malady, and as [2959]Alexander supposeth, lib. 1. cap. 16. yield as speedy a remedy as any other physic whatsoever.  Aetius would have them daily used, assidua balnea, Tetra. 2. sect. 2. c. 9. Galen cracks how many several cures he hath performed in this kind by use of baths alone, and Rufus pills, moistening them which are otherwise dry.  Rhasis makes it a principal cure, Tota cura sit in humectando, to bathe and afterwards anoint with oil.  Jason Pratensis, Laurentius, cap. 8. and Montanus set down their peculiar forms of artificial baths.  Crato, consil. 17. lib. 2. commends mallows, camomile, violets, borage to be boiled in it, and sometimes fair water alone, and in his following counsel, Balneum aquae dulcis solum saepissime profuisse compertum habemus.  So doth Fuchsius, lib. 1. cap. 33. Frisimelica, 2. consil. 42. in Trincavelius.  Some beside herbs prescribe a ram’s head and other things to be boiled. [2960] Fernelius, consil. 44. will have them used ten or twelve days together; to which he must enter fasting, and so continue in a temperate heat, and after that frictions all over the body.  Lelius Aegubinus, consil. 142. and Christoph.  Aererus, in a consultation of his, hold once or twice a week sufficient to bathe, the [2961]"water to be warm, not hot, for fear of sweating.”  Felix Plater, observ. lib. 1. for a melancholy lawyer, [2962] “will have lotions of the head still joined to these baths, with a ley wherein capital herbs have been boiled.” [2963]Laurentius speaks of baths of milk, which I find approved by many others.  And still after bath, the body to be anointed with oil of bitter almonds, of violets, new or fresh butter, [2964]capon’s grease, especially the backbone, and then lotions of the head, embrocations, &c.  These kinds of baths have been in former times much frequented, and diversely varied, and are still in general use in those eastern countries.  The Romans had their public baths very sumptuous and stupend, as those of Antoninus and Diocletian.  Plin. 36. saith there were an infinite number of them in Rome, and mightily frequented; some bathed seven times a day, as Commodus the emperor is reported to have done; usually twice a day, and they were after anointed with most costly ointments:  rich women bathed themselves in milk, some in the milk of five hundred she-asses at once:  we have many ruins of such, baths found in this island, amongst those parietines and rubbish of old Roman towns.  Lipsius, de mag.  Urb.  Rom. l. 3, c. 8, Rosinus, Scot of Antwerp, and other antiquaries, tell strange stories of their baths.  Gillius, l. 4. cap. ult.  Topogr.  Constant. reckons up 155 public [2965]baths in Constantinople, of fair building; they are still [2966]frequented in that city by the Turks of all sorts, men and women, and all over Greece, and those hot countries; to absterge