Balneology: a concept of public health-bath houses in Arabian life

ABSTRACT

Although Hippocrates was famous for corpus, Aphorismi, de aere, aquis including balneology and Romans were practicing public health with the development of baths. Arabs have been given credit for the implementation of preventotherapeutic application of public bath houses in their life. This paper will put stress on preventive and therapeutic value of balneology, model of public health-bath houses in Arabs and role of bather and bathmen in regimental therapy and recommended advises related to bath