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Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.

Malvern Wells, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Wood engraving by W. Radclyffe after W.H. Wood.

Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: with a plan of the town. Lithograph.

The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.

Sadler's Wells, as it was in 1737, with fashionable water-drinkers. Wood engraving, [post 1840].

St. Ann's Well, Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Etching.

Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

Strathpeffer Mineral Wells, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Engraving by J.C. Armytage, 1836, after T. Allom.

Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: plan of town. Lithograph.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "trap ball" ground, with men playing, St Pancras Church in the background. Etching.

De admirandis Hungariae aquis hypomnemation / Georgio Wernhero autore.

A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett.

Memoir concerning the acidulous, gaseous, bicarbonated, sodaic waters of Vals (Ardèche) / by Dr. Tourrette.

Change of air and scene : a physicians hints; with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland & sea-ward,) Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / Alphonse Donné.

New experiments and observations upon mineral waters: directing their farther use for the preservation of health, and the cure of diseases. By Dr. Friderick Hoffman, Counsellor and Physician to the King of Prussia, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Extracted from his several essays upon this subject, and illustrated with notes, by Peter Shaw, M.D.

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De admirandis Hungariae aquis hypomnemation / Georgio Wernhero autore.

A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett.

Memoir concerning the acidulous, gaseous, bicarbonated, sodaic waters of Vals (Ardèche) / by Dr. Tourrette.

Change of air and scene : a physicians hints; with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland & sea-ward,) Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / Alphonse Donné.