People taking a vapour bath. Coloured wood engraving by O. Sörling.

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1 print : wood engraving, with watercolour ; image 20.8 x 26.8 cm

Vapour baths in Finland ; vapour baths are given to patients assembled in a closed room by throwing water on a heated fireplace in order to produce steam. ; massage is given with switches of twigs. ; O. Sörling.

Wellcome Collection 34793i

After: plate to Joseph Acerbi, Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799, London 1802