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Baths

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Hygiene
Physical Therapy Specialty
Therapeutics, Physiological

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  • Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • Pompeii: the Stabian baths. Photograph by Alinari, 1931.
  • Russell Institution, Great Coram Street, London: the facade, with passers-by. Coloured aquatint, 1811.
  • M0007334: Illustration of a bath house at Leuchen
  • Matlock Bath, Derbyshire: panoramic view. Tinted lithograph by G. Rowe.
  • The story of baths and bathing / [George Ryley Scott].
  • The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.
  • Open air baths in Budapest; two large pools separated by railings in which people are swimming. Photograph.
  • A lady holding a fan in her right hand: an animal jumps out of her wig and bites the barber on the nose, forcing him to wear a black patch. Woodcut and letterpress.
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    Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce. Vol VI

    Bath | Date: [1792]
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    Rules and orders of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ..

    Bath | Date: [1777]
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    Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.V.

    Bath | Date: [1790]
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    Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.III.

    Bath | Date: [1788]
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    Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.IV.

    Bath | Date: [1788]

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West of England Society

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