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Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.

A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.

The Baths of Leuk, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Lithograph by J. Jacottet after R. Ritz.

A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.

Specification of John Henry Johnson : medicated and voltaic baths.

On the utility and safety of the fumigating bath : as a remedial agent in complaints of the skin, joints, rheumatism, gout, and disorder of the digestive organs ... / by Jonathan Green.

Nitro-muriatic acid bath.

A surgeon bleeding a patient's arm in a bath of water. Wood engraving.

The utility and importance of fumigating baths illustrated, or, A series of facts and remarks, shewing the origin, progress, and final establishment, (by order of the French government,) of the practice of fumigations for the cure of various diseases of the joints, paralytic affections, gout, rheumatism, bilious and nervous disorders, all complaints of long standing, and diseases of the skin. / By Jonathan Green.

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Baths, Medicated

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Specification of John Henry Johnson : medicated and voltaic baths.

On the utility and safety of the fumigating bath : as a remedial agent in complaints of the skin, joints, rheumatism, gout, and disorder of the digestive organs ... / by Jonathan Green.

Nitro-muriatic acid bath.

A surgeon bleeding a patient's arm in a bath of water. Wood engraving.

Baths, Medicated

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Specification of John Henry Johnson : medicated and voltaic baths.

On the utility and safety of the fumigating bath : as a remedial agent in complaints of the skin, joints, rheumatism, gout, and disorder of the digestive organs ... / by Jonathan Green.

Nitro-muriatic acid bath.

A surgeon bleeding a patient's arm in a bath of water. Wood engraving.

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