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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.

An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.

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

An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.

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.

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.

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

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.

Specification of Henry Holmes : pneumatic bath, &c.

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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.

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.

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

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.

Specification of Henry Holmes : pneumatic bath, &c.