Stories
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A journey through slime
Did you know that slime cells signal to each other and seek out multiple partners? Welcome to bath time with Abi Palmer – and some revolting yet awe-inspiring grey slime.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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Hot Baths at Leuk, Switzerland: interior showing patients bathing. Process print after A. Forestier.
Forestier, A. (Amédée), 1854-1930.Reference: 20241i- Pictures
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Hot Baths, Wiesbaden: figures strolling at the source. Engraving by E. Grünewald after J. Fey.
Fey, Joseph, 1813-1875.Reference: 23043i- Books
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Psychrolousia: or, the history of cold bathing: both ancient and modern. In two parts. The first, written by Sir John Floyer, of Litchfield, Kt. The second, Treating of the Genuine Use of Hot and Cold Baths. Together with The wonderful Effects of the Bath-Water, drank hot from the Pump, in decay'd Stomachs, and in most Diseases of the Bowels, Liver and Spleen, &c. Also proving, That the best Cures done by the Cold Baths, are lately observed to arise from the Temperate Use of the Hot Baths first. By Dr. Edward Baynard, Fellow of the College of Physicians, London.
Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734.Date: MDCCVI. [1706]- Books
Proceedings of a conference on rheumatic diseases : held at Bath, 10th and 11th May, 1928.
Conference on Rheumatic Diseases (1928 : Bath, England)Date: [1928]- Digital Images
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Baths of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in Rome, 295 A.D.