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  • John Hutton Balfour. Photograph by H.N. King, Bath.
  • John the Baptist receiving his first bath, Elizabeth is recovering in bed while Zacharias is recording the childs name. Woodcut.
  • An enquiry into the right use and abuses of the hot, cold, and temperate baths in England ... With a particular description of ... Buxton-Bath ... To this is added I. An extract of Dr. Jones's Treaty on Buxton-Bath ... II. A letter from Dr. Clayton ... concerning the use of St. Mungus-Well. III. An abstract of some cures perform'd by the bath at Buxton ... / [Sir John Floyer].
  • Practical hydropathy (not the cold-water system) : including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing, and habits of life ... / by John Smedley.
  • John the Baptist receiving his first bath, Elizabeth is recovering in bed while Zacharias is recording the childs name. Engraving after J. van der Straet.
  • John the Baptist receiving his first bath, Elizabeth is recovering in bed while Zacharias is recording the childs name. Engraving by C. Galle after J. van der Straet.
  • John the Baptist receiving his first bath, Elizabeth is recovering in bed while Zacharias is recording the childs name. Line engraving, c. 1700, after G. Bonasone after G. Pontormo.
  • John the Baptist receiving his first bath, Elizabeth is recovering in bed while Zacharias is recording the child's name. Line engraving, c. 1700, after G. Bonasone after G. Pontormo.
  • John the Baptist receiving his first bath, Elizabeth is recovering in bed while Zacharias is recording the child's name. Line engraving, c. 1700, after G. Bonasone after G. Pontormo.
  • An appendix to the Narrative of the last illness of the Right Honourable Earl of Orford : occasioned by the letter from a physician in town to another at Bath / by John Ranby.
  • A narrative of the last illness of the ... Earl of Orford: from May 1744, to the day of his decease, March the eighteenth following. With an appendix: occasioned by the Letter from a physician in town to another at Bath / [John Ranby].
  • Select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desparate diseases / First written in Latin by Mr. John Hall ... after Englished by James Cook, author of the Marrow of chirurgery. To which is now added ... Counsels and advices ... By the same author. In the close ... Directions for drinking of the Bath-water, and Ars cosmetica ... by H. Stubbs.
  • Select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desparate diseases / First written in Latin by Mr. John Hall ... after Englished by James Cook, author of the Marrow of chirurgery. To which is now added ... Counsels and advices ... By the same author. In the close ... Directions for drinking of the Bath-water, and Ars cosmetica ... by H. Stubbs.
  • The ruins of a Roman bath in Bath. Photograph by J. Poole.
  • John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.
  • Six scenes from a Tamil village and neigbouring tea plantation. Coloured pen and ink drawing by J.P. Gulich, c. 1889.
  • Benjamin Hoadly and his wife. Oil painting by Francis Hayman.
  • Benjamin Hoadly and his wife. Oil painting by Francis Hayman.
  • One of the "Sand Bath" processes used in dental soldering.
  • A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and in the potecaries and herbaries Latin, : with the properties degrees, and naturall places of the same / gathered and made by Wylliam Turner.
  • King Charles II landing in Dover in 1660. Engraving by W. Sharp after B. West.
  • Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, with a whip in one hand and a letter in the other, mounted on an ass with a human head. Etching with engraving, 1745.
  • New College, Belsize, London. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing after B. Sly, 1851.
  • The physiological anatomy and physiology of man / by Robert Bentley Todd ... and William Bowman.
  • Corruption in the British government under Walpole, and its opponents represented by Caleb D'Anvers: seven scenes. Engraving, 1731.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
  • Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.