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  • Sudbrook Park, Petersham: hydropathy centre with a deer park in Surrey. Line engraving.
  • Three people sitting around a water-vapour machine which is emitting dry steam, attempting to cure their illnesses. Engraving.
  • Hot Springs, Mtagata, Central Africa: H.M. Stanley observing the therapeutic powers of the hot springs. Wood engraving, 1878.
  • An old man (Sardanapalus?) being bathed by young nude women - an attempt at rejuvenation. Process print after C. de la Passe, the elder, 1600, after M. de Vos.
  • Two sets of apparatus demonstrating Captain Jekyll's patent vapour bath. Line engraving by J. Jekyll.
  • Matlock House, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Steel engraving by Newman & Co., 1870.
  • Matlock, Derbyshire. Etching by Rock & Co., 1862.
  • A woman covered in an oiled silk cloak with a vapour machine which is linked to fireplace in front of her. Engraving.
  • Sick people gathered around the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem as an angel stirs the waters. Woodcut, 15--.
  • A sick man with a cold. Coloured lithograph, 1833.
  • Bad Peterstal, Black Forest, Germany. Lithograph.
  • Hydropathy; or, the cold water cure, as practised by Vincent Priessnitz, at Graefenberg, Silesia, Austria / [R. T Claridge].
  • A man visiting a health resort is sitting in a steam box. Engraving, May 1869.
  • A man in a bath receiving gentle electrical currents as a form of therapy. Photograph after a wood engraving.
  • An elderly land-lady taking a warming-pan to put in her lodgers bed, which is already occupied by someone else. Coloured lithograph by H. Heath.
  • Tortosa, Spain: panoramic view. Lithograph.
  • A man visiting a health resort is seated in a cubicle and is being sprayed with water coming from the walls. Etching, May 1869.
  • A man in a bath receiving gentle electrical currents as a form of therapy. Photograph after a wood engraving.
  • A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being woken up by a man who is opening a window; bath tub in the foreground, snow outside. Etching, May 1870.
  • A man operating a specially designed hydrotherapeutic chair. Wood engraving by O.T., 1860.
  • A man smoking and reading the paper fully clothed in a hip-bath; self-help hydrotherapy in hot weather. Wood engraving.
  • A man on the staff of a health resort is pouring water in a bath tub in which a man covered with a sheet is seated. Etching, May 1870.