The thermal baths of Bath : their history, literature, medical and surgical uses and effects, together with the Aix massage and natural vapour treatment / by Henry William Freeman.
- Freeman, Henry William, 1842-1897
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The thermal baths of Bath : their history, literature, medical and surgical uses and effects, together with the Aix massage and natural vapour treatment / by Henry William Freeman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![Hot Bath.—The description of the Hot Bath, at Bath, rebuilt at the expense of the Chamber of this city ; together with the plans, elevations, and sections of the same ; the designs of John Wood, architects, (sic), 1777, 4to. Johnson, Dr. Thomas.—Thermae Bathonicas, sive earum descriptio, vires, utendi tempus, modus, &c,, Scripta a Thoma Johnsono. Scribere jussit Amor. Londoni, 1634. [Note.—This is printed at the end of his Mercurius Botanicus. . . . Hinc assessit de Thermis Bathonicis tractatus. A map of Bath is in- serted, and there are curious woodcut views of the Baths] A Second Edition in 1674.—(Lowndes.) Reprinted in 1849— only a few copies. Jorden, Edward.—A Discourse of Naturall Bathes, and Mineral Waters, etc. London, 1631. 4to. [Note.—Lowndes says, A learned and elaborate work.] Ditto, Second Edition.—A Discourse of Naturall Bathes, etc., etc. The Second Edition in many points enlarged. By Edward Jorden, Dr. in Physick. London: Printed by Thomas Harper, 1632. 4to. [Note.—An edition dated 1683 is advertised in a bookseller's catalogue.] Ditto, Third Edition.—A Discourse of Natural Bathes, and IVIineral Waters, wherein the Original of Fountains in general is declared. The nature and difference of Minerals, with examples of particular Bathes. The generation of Minerals in the earth, from whence both the actual heat of Bathes, and their virtues proceed. By what means Mineral Waters are to be discover'd. And lastly, of the Nature and Uses of Baths, but especially of our Bathes, at Bathe, in Somersetshire. By Edward Jorden, Doctor in Physic. The Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged ; with some par- ticulars of the Author's Life. 8vo. Lond., 1669. [See also Memoir, p. 98,] Ken, Bishop.—Prayers for the Use of all Persons who come to the Baths for Cure. By Bp. Ken. London, 1712. Svo. (This was reprinted by the late J. H. Markland, D.C.L.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21053212_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
