This is Matthew Bramble writing to Dr. Lewis about Bath, in one of my particularly favorite eighteenth-century novels:Two days ago, I went into the King???s Bath, by the advice of our friend Ch----, in order to clear the strainer of the skin, for the benefit of a free perspiration; and the first object that saluted my eye, was a child full of scrophulous ulcers, carried in the arms of one of the g