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  • A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
  • Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • A man visiting a health resort is covered with a sheet and lying on a wooden daybed, two men covered with sheets are standing before him; in the background a man with a sheet on his shoulders is filling up a glass with water. Etching, May 1870.
  • My water-cure : tested for more than 35 years and published for the cure of diseases and the preservation of health / by Sebastian Kneipp ; translated from his 36th German edition.
  • Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: with a plan of the town. Lithograph.
  • A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
  • Christ healing lame people at the pool of Bethesda. Etching by D. Cunego, 1779, after J.A. Calvi after L. Carracci.
  • Hydropathic establishment, Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland: perspective view. Wood engraving by Nisbet, 1881?.
  • Practical hydropathy (not the cold-water system) : including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing, and habits of life ... / by John Smedley.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being sprayed with water coming from a stool on which he is trying to sit. Etching, 1869.
  • Mr. Lambkin trying to find a new cure for his illness; riding a horse in wet clothes. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Matlock Bath, Derbyshire: panoramic view. Tinted lithograph by G. Rowe.
  • A physician discovers that the patient to whom he has administered hydrotherapy has developed 'water on the brain'. Lithograph by Brandl, c. 1850.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being sprayed with water; man seated on a stool in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • The Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem, Israel. Lithograph by D. Roberts, 1839.
  • Malvern, Great Malvern, Worcestershire: plan of town. Lithograph.
  • Six vignettes of self-help hydrotherapy. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.
  • A man visiting a health resort is seated in a cubicle and is being sprayed with water coming from the walls. Etching, May 1869.
  • Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Hydropathy; or, the cold water cure, as practised by Vincent Priessnitz, at Graefenberg, Silesia, Austria / [R. T Claridge].
  • The King's bath, a therapeutic steam bath with a gothic structure in the centre and surrounded by other buildings. Reproduction of a pen drawing after J. Fayram.
  • Christ healing the lame at the pool of Bethesda. Etching by M. Sorello after S. Conca.
  • A man visiting a health resort with his limbs immobilized is watching a wasp flying near him; bath tub in the background. Etching, 1869.
  • A man taking a shower as part of a hydrotherapeutic cure. Wood engraving by O.T., 1860.
  • Christ healing the lame at the pool of Bethesda. Etching after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
  • Matlock Baths, Derbyshire. Lithograph by J.D. Harding after S. Rayner.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being sprayed with water; man seated on a stool in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • A woman patient at a spa is told by her doctor that the treatment for her fertility might be helped by the presence of a 'diverting friend' - i.e. him. Lithograph by M. Stephane, c. 1896.
  • Hydropathic establishment, Oxfordshire (?). Photograph by G. Kirby, 19--.