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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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  • A fat farmer and a young woman at a sea-side resort; behind them are two establishments, "Baths Shampooing" and "Charles Wright's Champagne". Aquatint with etching by G. Hunt and T. Lane after T. Lane.
  • Colvers' Sea Breeze Foot Bath Salts : no more foot troubles. One bath puts new life into the feet. Pain disappears like magic.
  • Notice to bathers : a penalty of forty shillings will be incurred: 1.-- By every person who shall bathe (otherwise than from a bathing machine or from a bathing hut), on any part of the Yarmouth sea beach ... / P. O'Connor, inspector.
  • Explanation of sea-bathing machine
  • Sea-bathing machines at Margate, with captions.
  • Sea-bathing machine at Margate, with captions.
  • Royal Sea-bathing Infirmary, Margate, Kent. Wood engraving.
  • Women bathing in the sea near their bathing machines. Wood engraving by J. Leech.
  • A guide to all the watering and sea-bathing places.
  • General Sea-Bathing Infirmary, Margate, Kent. Line engraving by R. Ashby after W. Pickett.
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