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Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: The Brighton Turkish Bath Company Limited (shares certificate : 5 April 1869), Foots' Hot Air Vapor Bath Cabinet (J. Foot, 171 New Bond Street, London : 1901), a vapour bath at Buxton Hospital (postcard : photograph : 1900s?), the Invalids' Walk in Bournemouth, Apsley House in Slough, Dr. Wiedeburg's sanatorium in Bad Blankenburg, the Post Office Sanatorium Society (for relief from tuberculosis), 4 poster stamps for sanatoria (Finkenmühle in Thürwald and Kindersanatorium Maison Blanche, Leubringen-Evilard, ca. 1910), a series of 48 perforated stamps (possibly from Holland in the 1920s) showing different sanatoria with the tuberculosis symbol on them, the Century Thermal Bath Cabinet, Merano's radioactive waters, Droitwich Spa, the Hydro Centre in Westbury, Dorset, Balsan Hydrotherapy, Aquatherapy Limited, Établissement Hydrothérapique Orthomorphique, Paris, colonic hydrotherapy, Sárvári thermal crystal, Shitari intelligent hydrotherapeutic system, saunas and steam rooms, Swedish National Sanatorium (Denver, Colorado - Christmas seal, 1952), the 'Quaker' turkish or vapour bath cabinet (1902), The Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London (turkish baths : 1910s?), Sauna Ltd.'s finnish baths and massage (Abingdon Road, Kensington, ca. 1940?).

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Sanatoria, water therapy & saunas ephemera. Box 1.

6 unnumbered pages, 84, 2 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 12mo (18 cm)

On the Portable Sudatory, or hot-air-bath; with cases illustrative of its medical powers in various disorders, and its great utility in cholera morbus, with directions for its administration; together with remarks on the applicability of galvanism in the first stage of that disease / By M. La Beaume, medical-galvanist and electrician in ordinary to the King.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.5 x 44.5 cm

A floating bath-house on the Seine, Paris: lettered key floor and design plans. Engraving by Bernard after Lucotte.

A boat in the river Seine, example of premises in which some of the activities of wigmakers, bathouse keepers and steam bath keepers are carried out

1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.8 x 44.8 cm

Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.

An account of the new and successful treatment of indigestion, bilious and nervous complaints, deafness, blindness, etc / by M. La Beaume ... with cases to prove the medical efficacy of his portable sudatory or warm-air bath.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.7 x 22.7 cm

Perruquier Baigneur Étuviste, Paris: plan of the rooms. Engraving by Bernard after Lucotte.

Patent for a type of turkish bath to which "oxygen, mercury, sulphur, or other gaseous or vaporized substance" may be added for medicinal benefit.

Specification of Frederick John Money : hot air baths.

1 print : lithograph ; image 21.6 x 30 cm

The prison, retirement home and thermal baths, Bagnères de Bigorre. Lithograph after E. Sewrin.

1 print : lithograph ; image 21.3 x 30.1 cm

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Sanatoria, water therapy & saunas ephemera. Box 1.

A floating bath-house on the Seine, Paris: lettered key floor and design plans. Engraving by Bernard after Lucotte.

Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.

An account of the new and successful treatment of indigestion, bilious and nervous complaints, deafness, blindness, etc / by M. La Beaume ... with cases to prove the medical efficacy of his portable sudatory or warm-air bath.

Perruquier Baigneur Étuviste, Paris: plan of the rooms. Engraving by Bernard after Lucotte.

Specification of Frederick John Money : hot air baths.

The prison, retirement home and thermal baths, Bagnères de Bigorre. Lithograph after E. Sewrin.

Social gathering with a view of the thermal baths, Bagnéres de Bigorre. Lithograph by J. Jacottet and A. Bayot.

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Sanatoria, water therapy & saunas ephemera. Box 1.

A floating bath-house on the Seine, Paris: lettered key floor and design plans. Engraving by Bernard after Lucotte.

Bains de Poitevin, Paris: public steam baths with ground plan. Engraving by Benard after J.R. Lucotte.

An account of the new and successful treatment of indigestion, bilious and nervous complaints, deafness, blindness, etc / by M. La Beaume ... with cases to prove the medical efficacy of his portable sudatory or warm-air bath.

Perruquier Baigneur Étuviste, Paris: plan of the rooms. Engraving by Bernard after Lucotte.

Specification of Frederick John Money : hot air baths.

The prison, retirement home and thermal baths, Bagnères de Bigorre. Lithograph after E. Sewrin.

Social gathering with a view of the thermal baths, Bagnéres de Bigorre. Lithograph by J. Jacottet and A. Bayot.

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