Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Concept

Baths, Hot-air

Images

  • Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Pyrenees: the thermal baths and visitors. Lithograph by J. Jacottet and A. Bayot, 1841.
  • Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.
  • Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.
  • The prison, retirement home and thermal baths, Bagnères de Bigorre. Lithograph after E. Sewrin.
All images (4)

Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    Sanatoria, water therapy & saunas ephemera. Box 1.

    • Books
    • Online

    On the Portable Sudatory, or hot-air-bath; with cases illustrative of its medical powers in various disorders, and its great utility in cholera morbus, with directions for its administration; together with remarks on the applicability of galvanism in the first stage of that disease / By M. La Beaume, medical-galvanist and electrician in ordinary to the King.

    La Beaume, Michael. | Date: 1832
    • Pictures

    Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 22006i
    • Books
    • Online

    An account of the new and successful treatment of indigestion, bilious and nervous complaints, deafness, blindness, etc / by M. La Beaume ... with cases to prove the medical efficacy of his portable sudatory or warm-air bath.

    La Beaume, Michael. | Date: 1821
    • Books
    • Online

    Specification of Frederick John Money : hot air baths.

    Money, Frederick John. | Date: 1874
All works (7)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    closed
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence