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  • Lacquered wood, masseurs operating on shoulders and back.
  • Seven blind masseurs fighting: a scene at Iwamurata. Coloured woodcut by Eisen and Hiroshige, 1839 (?).
  • Wood masseur operating on another's head.
  • A Japanese woman being massaged by a blind Japanese masseur. Coloured photograph.
  • A blind Japanese masseur with a pipe in his mouth and a long pole in his hand. Photograph.
  • A masseur massaging the arm of a man who is sitting on a low stool, with a leg immersed in a brass basin. Gouache painting, ca. 1825.
  • A scene inside an inn: left, a guest is waited on by a servant girl bringing food, and by a blind masseur; right, in another room, geishas apply cosmetics to their faces. Reprint (ca. 1900) of coloured woodcut by Hiroshige, 1834.
  • The interior of an Egyptian bath-house; a seated man is being washed and attended to by four male servants. Engraving by G.B. Cecchi after V. Denon.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Interior of a 16th century Bath House.
  • Interior of a Persian bathing establishment.