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

Malvern Wells, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Wood engraving by W. Radclyffe after W.H. Wood.

Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: with a plan of the town. Lithograph.

Les Eaux-Bonnes, Basses Pyrénées: view from above. Lithograph by E. Ciceri, 1858.

The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.

Sadler's Wells, as it was in 1737, with fashionable water-drinkers. Wood engraving, [post 1840].

De thermis Britannicis tractatus. Accesserunt observationes hydrostaticae, chromaticae & miscellaneae, uniuscujusque balnei apud Bathoniam naturam, proprietatem & distinctionem, curatius exhibentes / [Thomas Guidott].

St. Ann's Well, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Etching.

Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

Strathpeffer Mineral Wells, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Engraving by J.C. Armytage, 1836, after T. Allom.

Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: plan of town. Lithograph.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "trap ball" ground, with men playing, St Pancras Church in the background. Etching.

Bath memoirs: or, observations in three and forty years practice, at the Bath : what cures have been there wrought, (both by bathing and drinking these waters by God's blessing, on the directions of Robert Peirce, Dr. in physick, and Fellow of the College of Physicians in London, a constant inhabitant in Bath, from the year 1653. to this present year 1697.

Das Schandauer Gesundheitsbad / beschrieben von Karl Friedrich Montag.

A visit to the Purton spa : with a short account of the extraordinary properties and effects of its sulphated and bromo-iodated spring / by Robert H. Bakewell.

De admirandis Hungariae aquis hypomnemation / Georgio Wernhero autore.

The medical properties of the St. Catharines mineral waters.

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Mineral Waters

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Images referencing Mineral Waters

Works from the collections

Das Schandauer Gesundheitsbad / beschrieben von Karl Friedrich Montag.

A visit to the Purton spa : with a short account of the extraordinary properties and effects of its sulphated and bromo-iodated spring / by Robert H. Bakewell.

De admirandis Hungariae aquis hypomnemation / Georgio Wernhero autore.

The medical properties of the St. Catharines mineral waters.

Mineral Waters

Images from the collections

Images referencing Mineral Waters

Works from the collections

Das Schandauer Gesundheitsbad / beschrieben von Karl Friedrich Montag.

A visit to the Purton spa : with a short account of the extraordinary properties and effects of its sulphated and bromo-iodated spring / by Robert H. Bakewell.

De admirandis Hungariae aquis hypomnemation / Georgio Wernhero autore.

The medical properties of the St. Catharines mineral waters.

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