Prior to this. treatment often consisted of hot water bottles and ice bags. In 1890. Dr. Baruch began intensive work on the use of warm flowing baths in the treatment of certain emotional disorders and typhoid fever. This had been introduced by Winternitz in Vienna. but it took Baruch. and two books on hydrotherapy. to make it popular. At the turn of the century. the immigrant was appointed a full professor at Columbia University. He was now 60. and he felt that he should devote more time to the poor. He opened the first free public bath in Rivington Street in New York in 1901.
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