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Concept

Vapor baths

Images

  • 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.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.
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Catalogue

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    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.

    Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864. | Date: 1847 (
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    An account of the new institution in Edinburgh for the application of vapour, mineral water baths, &c. &c., No. 8 Broughton Street : with the history of the successful cases that have occurred at it in the following diseases.

    | Date: 1822
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    Baths of warm air, vapour, sulphur, chlorine, camphor, and other fumigating, &c. at Mr Green's.

    Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864. | Date: [1827?]
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    Observations on the injurious tendency of extreme depletion in inflammatory disorders : with remarks on the remedial agency of the vapour bath in acute and chronic diseases : illustrated by cases / by Edward Daniell, surgeon.

    Daniell, Edward, 1795-1865. | Date: 1833
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    Specification of Henry Holmes : pneumatic bath, &c.

    Holmes, Henry. | Date: 1855
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