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A body covered with a blanket lying on a heated bath for the purpose of resuscitation. Etching, 1790.

Vibrators / Stanley Cox Ltd.

A home nurse carrying a 'hot-coal' bed warmer. Coloured wood engraving by J.A. Lavieille after H.B. Monnier.

Therapeutics of dry hot air : with a chapter upon the incandescent electric light / by Clarence Edward Skinner.

Dissertation médico-pratique, sur l'usage des rafraichissans et des échauffans dans les fievres exanthématiques / Par M. Carrère.

Practical observations concerning sea bathing : to which are added, remarks on the use of the warm bath / by A.P. Buchan.

Opuscules de chirurgie : sur l'utilité et l'abus de la compression et les propriétés de l'eau froide et chaude dans la cure des maladies chirurgicales / Par M. Lombard.

Why go away for a cure? : James's Hydro : electric, turkish, light and other baths : opposite Earl's Court station, London ... / A.R. James.

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Therapeutics of dry hot air : with a chapter upon the incandescent electric light / by Clarence Edward Skinner.

Dissertation médico-pratique, sur l'usage des rafraichissans et des échauffans dans les fievres exanthématiques / Par M. Carrère.

Practical observations concerning sea bathing : to which are added, remarks on the use of the warm bath / by A.P. Buchan.

Opuscules de chirurgie : sur l'utilité et l'abus de la compression et les propriétés de l'eau froide et chaude dans la cure des maladies chirurgicales / Par M. Lombard.

Why go away for a cure? : James's Hydro : electric, turkish, light and other baths : opposite Earl's Court station, London ... / A.R. James.