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  • Balneology: Roman bath house; hot and cold steam baths
  • M0007329: Illustration of early 15th century bath house with steam heating
  • A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.
  • A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.
  • 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.
  • A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
  • A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
  • A steam-driven carriage on the route between London and Bath passes through the streets of a village as bystanders watch its progress. Colour process print after H. Pyall after G. Morton, ca. 1828.
  • A steam-driven carriage on the route between London and Bath passes through the streets of a village as bystanders watch its progress. Colour process print after H. Pyall after G. Morton, ca. 1828.
  • 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.
  • Model of the steam baths of the Roman emperor Diocletian, 295 A.D.: men are shown relaxing and receiving massages. Photograph, 1936.
  • A Russian bathhouse: men and women bathing in the steam and invigorating each other with bundles of twigs. Colour aquatint by E.M. Korneev, 1811/1813.
  • Regd. offices of Century Thermal Bath Cabinet Ltd., 203-205, Regent Street, London, W. / A.R. Pointing, managing director.
  • The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.
  • A man visiting a health resort is sitting in a steam box. Engraving, May 1869.
  • An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.
  • 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.
  • Bermondsey swimming baths: interior. Photographic postcard, ca. 1906.
  • Bermondsey swimming baths: interior. Photographic postcard, ca. 1906.
  • The lake of Agnano. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • On Monday, July 19th, 1869 & every evening until further notice : the performance will commencewith (Wednesday and Thursday excepted) the interesting drama, in four acts, entitled - the Black Doctor : acts I. and II. the island of Bourbon, 1788 ... / Grecian Theatre ... City Road.
  • The lake of Agnano. Etching, 16--.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • A futuristic vision: the advance of technology leads to rapid transport, sophisticated tastes among the masses, mechanization, and extravagant building projects. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • People taking a vapour bath. Coloured wood engraving by O. Sörling.
  • People taking a vapour bath. Coloured wood engraving by O. Sörling.
  • Hydropathic Establishment & Hotel, Wharfedale, Yorkshire.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Five kinds of treatment in hospitals and elsewhere. Wood engraving, 1881.