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  • Hot Baths at Leuk, Switzerland: interior showing patients bathing. Process print after A. Forestier.
  • Hot Baths, Wiesbaden: figures strolling at the source. Engraving by E. Grünewald after J. Fey.
  • Balneology: Roman bath house; hot and cold steam baths
  • Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street: the Hararah or hot-chamber.
  • The hot baths and infirmary, Bath. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • The hot baths and infirmary, Bath. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • The hot baths and infirmary, Bath. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
  • Hot baths in Buxton, Derbyshire: the exterior of the buildings viewed from a hill opposite. Photograph by Poulton.
  • St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
  • St. Pancras baths and washhouses: interior bath, street entrance to the building, superior bath, wringing machine, ironing and drying-room, hot air machine and washing-room. Wood engravings, 1846.
  • 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].
  • Bath hot spring. Engraving by W. Walker, 1774.
  • Wairakei, New Zealand: men in hot swimming bath. Albumen print by Iles Photo.
  • Pompeii: a Roman villa calidarium (hot bath), showing water tanks and pipes. Photograph by Fratelli Alinari, 1931.
  • A man smoking and reading the paper fully clothed in a hip-bath; self-help hydrotherapy in hot weather. Wood engraving.
  • The Pisciarelli (a hot spring) issuing from the cone of the Solfatara, and a man bathing in the hot waters. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • Calendula officinalis L. Asteraceae. Pot marigold, common marigold, ruds or ruddles. Calendula, because it was said to flower most commonly at the first of each month - the 'calends' (Coles, 1657). officinalis indicates that it was used in the 'offices' - the clinics - of the monks in medieval times. Annual herb. Distribution: Southern Europe. The Doctrine of Signatures, indicated that as the flowers resembled the pupil of the eye (along with Arnica, Inula and the ox-eye daisy), it was good for eye disorders (Porta, 1588). Coles (1658) writes '... the distilled water ... helpeth red and watery eyes, being washed therewith, which it does by Signature, as Crollius saith'. Culpeper writes: [recommending the leaves] '... loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth helps the toothache and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.' The petals are used as a saffron substitute - ‘formerly much employed as a carminative
  • The cooling room of a hammam. Engraving by J.T. Willmore after W.H. Bartlett.
  • The Baths of Leuk, Switzerland. Woodcut.
  • A Roman bath-house: left, a fountain; right, a tub. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • A Roman bath-house. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • Pompeii: the columns of the Stabian baths gymnasium. Photograph by Alinari, 1931.
  • Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.
  • Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.
  • Hot Springs, Mtagata, Central Africa: H.M. Stanley observing the therapeutic powers of the hot springs. Wood engraving, 1878.
  • The Baths of Leuk, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Lithograph by J. Jacottet after R. Ritz.
  • The Baths of Leuk, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Lithograph by J. Jacottet after R. Ritz.
  • Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Etching by J. Gandon after R. Wilson.
  • Leuk Spa, Switzerland: mount Gemmi. Etching by I.S. Helman after J.J.F. le Barbier.
  • Baths of Caracalla, Rome: the water heating system. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.