The immersion or washing of the body or any of its parts in water or other medium for cleansing or medical treatment. It includes bathing for personal hygiene as well as for medical purposes with the addition of therapeutic agents, such as alkalines, antiseptics, oil, etc.
    

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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

"New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

The Turkish bath in health and disease : being the substance of a lecture delivered at Sheffield on the 16th of December, 1858 / by John le Gay Brereton.

Lecture on the progress and success of the Droitwich brine baths : with a short history of cases and their treatment / by Mr. Bainbrigge.

M0007331: Illustration of two wooden vapour baths

Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

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

Rules and orders of the society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, in the counties of Somerset, Wilts, Glocester, and Dorset. And the City and County of Bristol. To which are added, lists of the soc

Rules and orders of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, in the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Glocester, and Dorset

Rules, orders, and premiums of the Bath and West of England Society, for the encouragement of agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and commerce. With a list of the members of the society, and of the premiums granted in 1791

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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

Rules and orders of the society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, in the counties of Somerset, Wilts, Glocester, and Dorset. And the City and County of Bristol. To which are added, lists of the soc

Rules and orders of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, in the Counties of Somerset, Wilts, Glocester, and Dorset

Rules, orders, and premiums of the Bath and West of England Society, for the encouragement of agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and commerce. With a list of the members of the society, and of the premiums granted in 1791