Therapy by various hot or warm baths in natural mineral waters, spas, or cures. It includes not only bathing in, but also drinking the waters, but it does not include whirlpool baths (HYDROTHERAPY).
    

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M0013286: The baths at Plombières-les-Bains, France

Glauber Spring Hall, Franzensbad - view of the interior.

Sea-bathing machines at Margate, with captions.

Plate from "The water cure illustrated", c. 1870

Explanation of sea-bathing machine

Briefe eines Schweizers über das Wilhelmsbad bei Hanau / [Andreas Schäfer].

Das Schandauer Gesundheitsbad / beschrieben von Karl Friedrich Montag.

Health resorts etc- <i>Practitioner</i> -1908

Welcome to South Africa : to our distinguished visitors of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from the Cape Peninsula Publicity Association, July, 1929.

The album of Knaresborough views / A.W. Lowe.

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Briefe eines Schweizers über das Wilhelmsbad bei Hanau / [Andreas Schäfer].

Das Schandauer Gesundheitsbad / beschrieben von Karl Friedrich Montag.

Health resorts etc- Practitioner -1908

Welcome to South Africa : to our distinguished visitors of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from the Cape Peninsula Publicity Association, July, 1929.

The album of Knaresborough views / A.W. Lowe.