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![]() ![]() ![]() Both King George IV and William IV appointed him as their shampooing surgeon in Brighton. ![]() ![]() So successful was his treatment that Hospitals refered patients to Sake Dean Mahomed. 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’. Then, in 1814 Dean and Jane, his Irish wife, moved to Brighton and opened the first shampooing vapour masseur bath in England. Sake Dean Mahomet (1759 - 1851) was a Bengali traveller, surgeon, entrepreneur, and one of the most notable early non-European immigrants to the Western World. Sake Dean Mahomed moved to London, where he opened the first Indian take away restaurant in England – the Hindustani Coffee House. He became the first Indian to write a book in English. At age 25 he immigrated to Ireland in 1786, where he wrote and published his book, entitled ‘The Travels of Dean Mahomet’. He served in the English East India Company Bengal Army as a trainee surgeon. Another travel narrative written by a non-European (and the first published work by an Indian in English) was The Travels of Dean Mahomet (1794), which described the authors journeys through. Sake Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) grew up in India. ![]()
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