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Sake Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) grew
up in India. He served in the English East India Company Bengal
Army as a trainee surgeon. At age 25 he immigrated to Ireland in
1786, where he wrote and published his book, entitled 'The Travels
of Dean Mahomet'. He became the first Indian to write a book in
English.
Sake Dean Mahomed moved to London,
where he opened the first Indian take away restaurant in England
- the Hindustani Coffee House. Then, in 1814 Dean and Jane, his
Irish wife, moved to Brighton and opened the first shampooing vapour
masseur bath in England. He described the treatment in a local paper
as 'The Indian Medicated Vapour Bath (type of Turkish bath), a cure
to many diseases and giving full relief when every thing fails;
particularly Rheumatic and paralytic, gout, stiff joints, old sprains,
lame less, aches and pains in the joints'.
So successful was his treatment that
Hospitals refered patients to Sake Dean Mahomed. Both King George
IV and William IV appointed him as their shampooing surgeon in Brighton.
Mahomed’s Bath stood on the
site now occupied by the Queen's Hotel, Brighton.
1849
- Frederick Akbar Mahomed
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Sake Dean Mahomed
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Mrs Jane Mahomed
Mahomed's Baths stood on the site now occupied
by the Queen's Hotel Brighton
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