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• A booke of the natures and properties, as well of the bathes in England, as of other bathes in Germany and Italy : very necessary for all seik persones, that can not be healed without the helpe of natural bathes (in the 18th century), by William Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• New herball (Imprinted at Collen : By [the heirs of] Arnold Birckman, in the yeare of our Lorde M.D.LXVIII. [1568]), by William Turner (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Exercitationes Quinque: 1. De Aquis Mineralibus; 2. De Thermis Calidis; 3. De Morbis Acutis; 4. De Morbis Intermittentib; 5. De Hydrope (in Latin; Oxford: Typ. L. Lichfield, 1697), by Charles Leigh (page images at NIH)
• Experimental Essays on the Virtues of the Bath and Bristol Waters (third edition; London: A. Tennent, 1772), by Alexander Sutherland (page images at NIH)
• Experiments and observation upon the Hartfell Spaw : and an account of its medicinal virtues, so far as they have hitherto been discovered from experience (Edinburgh, 1754), by William Horsburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the Liverpool spa' water (Printed for A. Williamson, 1773), by Thomas Houlston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sheʼelah : [be-ʻinyan miḳveh]. (Columbia University Libraries, in the 18th century), by Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dissertation sur la manière d'administrer les bains de vapeurs et les fumigations : avec la description de nouveaux instrumens fumigatoires pour les fumigations universelles ou locales, et d'une machine pour donner des douches dans la chambre du malade (Chez Jean-Michel Briolo, imprimeur-libr. des RR. Acad. des sciences et Société d'agriculture, 1790), by Amédée Doppet (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Description of a new kinde of artificial bathes lately invented ([London : E. Allde, 1600?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Publique bathes purged. Or, A reply to Dr Chamberlain his Vindication of publique artificial bathes from the pretended objections and scandals obtruded on them. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year, 1648) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• John Evans, his hummums is in Brownlow-Street in Drury-Lane, where persons may sweat to what degree they please, there being degrees of heat, and several appartments, fit and commodious for private sweating, bathing, and fine cupping ... ([London : s.n., after 1679]), by John Evans (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• In the Old-baily, next door to the sign of the Black-Bull, is a sweating-house for eighteen pence a time; where both men and women may be very well accomodated at convenient seasons. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for men; Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays for women. ([London : s.n., between 1680 and 1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Publique bathes purged. Or, A reply to Dr Chamberlain his Vindication of publique artificial bathes from the pretended objections and scandals obtruded on them. ([London : s.n.], Printed in the year, 1648) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, the humble petition of Peter Chamberlen, doctor in physick,. ([London? : s.n.,: , 1649?]), by Peter Chamberlen and England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Religio castramentatio disciplina militaris et balneae veterum Romanorum (Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1686), by Guillaume Du Choul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso della religione antica de Romani, insieme vn'altro Discorso della castrametatione, et disciplina militare, bagni, & essercitij antichi di detti Romani (Appresso Gvglielmo Rovillio, 1569), by Guillaume Du Choul, Pierre Eskrich, and Gabriele Simeoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso del S. Guglielmo Choul ... sopra la castrametatione & bagni antichi de i Greci & Romani (Appresso Marc'Antonio Olmo, 1559), by Guillaume Du Choul and Gabriele Simeoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso della religione antica de Romani (Appresso Gugl. Rovillio, 1559), by Guillaume Du Choul, Bruce Rogers, Georges Reverdy, Pierre Eskrich, Gabriele Simeoni, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pvteolana historia (Excudebat Constantinus Vitalis, 1604), by Giulio Cesare Capaccio (page images at HathiTrust)

• De'bollitori di Bergullo e suoi fanghi : memoria (Stamperia del Seminario, 1795), by Luigi Angeli and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)

• Delle antiche terme Taurine esistenti nel territorio di Civitavecchia : dissertazione in cui si premettono le memorie cronologiche di essa citta ... (per Niccolo e Marco Pagliarini ..., 1761), by Gaetano Torraca, Raffaele Alibrandi Valentini, Marco Pagliarini, and Niccolo Pagliarini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Termologia puteolana (Presso Vincenzo Orsino, 1800), by Alessio de Sariis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Religio castramentatio disciplina militaris et balneae veterum Romanorum (Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1686), by Guillaume Du Choul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso della religione antica de Romani, insieme vn'altro Discorso della castrametatione, et disciplina militare, bagni, & essercitij antichi di detti Romani (Appresso Gvglielmo Rovillio, 1569), by Guillaume Du Choul, Pierre Eskrich, and Gabriele Simeoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso del S. Guglielmo Choul ... sopra la castrametatione & bagni antichi de i Greci & Romani (Appresso Marc'Antonio Olmo, 1559), by Guillaume Du Choul and Gabriele Simeoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thermes des Romains (Per Francesco Modena, 1785), by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, Francesco Modena, Gaetano Testolini, Carlo Barrera, and Andrea Palladio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso della religione antica de Romani (Appresso Gugl. Rovillio, 1559), by Guillaume Du Choul, Bruce Rogers, Georges Reverdy, Pierre Eskrich, Gabriele Simeoni, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An enquiry into the right use and abuses of the hot, cold, and temperate baths in England ... to this is added I. an extract of Dr. Jones's treaty on Buxton-Bath ..., II. a letter from Dr. Clayton ... concerning the use of St. Mungus-Well, III. an abstract of some cures perform'd by the bath at Buxton / by Sir John Floyer, Kt. ... (London : Printed for R. Clavel ..., 1697), by John Floyer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The benefit of the auncient bathes of Buckstones vvhich cureth most greeuous sicknesses, neuer before published: / compiled by Iohn Iones phisition. At the Kings Mede nigh Darby. Anno salutis 1572. Seene and alowed acording to the order appointed. ([London] : Ienuarii. xviii. Imprinted at London by Tho. East, and Henry Myddleton: for William Iones. And are to be sold at his long shop at the west dore of Paules. Church, [1572 (18 Jan.)]), by John Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Baths, and How to Take Them (ca. 1862), by Harriet N. Austin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Grundrissentwicklung der römischen Thermen nebst einem Verzeichnis der erhaltenen altrömischen Bäder mit Literaturnachweis. (J. H. E Heitz, 1909), by Ernst Pfretzschner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical hydropathy (not the cold-water system) : including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing, and habits of life ... (James Blackwood & Co., 1872), by John Smedley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern baths and bath houses (J. Wiley and sons, 1908), by Wm. Paul Gerhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bains à travers les âges (Librairie de la Construction moderne, 1925), by Paul Négrier, Marechalar, and Pierre Calmettes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gebäude für Heil- und sonstige Wohlfahrts-Anstalten. (Stuttgart, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water, as a preservative of health, and a remedy in disease. : A treatise on baths ... (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859), by John Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bathing facilities and habits of the soldiers and officers of the army. ([Birmingham, Ala.], 1917), by C. C. McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bad und bäder in der altchristlichen kirche. Eine studie über christentum und antike. (M. Hueber, 1928), by Johannes Zellinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches expérimentales sur l'absorption et l'exhalation par le tégument externe, sur la température animale, la circulation, et la respiration, ou essai sur l'action physiologique des bains d'eau (Rignoux, 1856), by Frédéric Duriau (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'hygiène par l'hydrothérapie (J.-B. Baillière & fils, 1899), by Jules Roger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggested health and safety guidelines for public spas and hot tubs. (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Environmental Health, 1985), by Center for Environmental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social and architecturalhistory of Bathhouse Row (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1988), by John C. Paige, Laura E. Soullière, and United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• New experiments and observations upon mineral waters: directing their farther use for the preservation of health, and the cure of diseases. (J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1731), by Friedrich Hoffmann and Peter Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warmwasserbereitungsanlagen und Badeeinrichtungen. Leitfaden zum Berechnen und Entwerfen von Warmwasserbereitungs- und Verteilungsanlagen öffentlicher Badeanstalten, Bädern in Wohn- und Krankenhäusern, Militärbädern, Arbeiterbädern und Schulbädern, bearbeitet für Ingenieure, Architekten, Techniker und Installateure von Holger Roose ... (R. Oldenbourg, 1905), by Holger Roose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miners' wash and change houses (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1915), by Joseph Hill White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lvxvrios bathing (Field & Tuer;, 1880), by Andrew White Tuer and Tristram James Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pavlli M. Paciaudi, C.R. ... De sacris christianorvn balneis, liber singvlaria. (excvdebant fratres Palearini, 1758), by Paolo Paciaudi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide pratique aux eaux minérales de la France et de l'étranger (Librairie Bloud et Barral, 1896), by Constantin James and Victor Aud'houi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bath: how and when to use it ... (Macniven, 1884), by James Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggestions from teachers (Kindergarten and grades I-IX) (School service, Cleanliness institute, 1932), by New York Cleanliness institute School service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Invalid at Saratoga (Published by M.W. Dodd, 1840), by Milo Linus North (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paris dans l'eau (J. Hetzel, 1844), by Eugène Victor Briffault and Bertall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Air-pump vapour bath ([s.n.], 1802), by Ralph Blegborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new, plain, and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters. (Bath, 1789), by James Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on baths : water, swimming, shampooing, heat, hot, cold, and vapor baths (Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1812), by Michael Lambton Este (page images at HathiTrust)
• Öffentliche bade- und schwimmanstalten (G.J. Göschen, 1908), by Carl Wolff (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on baths : including cold, sea, warm, hot, vapour, gas, and mud baths, also, on hydropathy, and pulmonary inhalation, with a description of bathing in ancient and modern times (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859), by John Bell and Samuel Murphey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on bathing. (G.W. Light, 1839), by William A. Alcott and Library of health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Badeeinrichtungen und Badeanstalten (O. Leiner, 1913), by Johann Eugen Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook of climatic treatment including balneology (Macmillan and co., limited;, 1906), by William Richard Huggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spas of Europe (Trübner, 1862), by Julius Althaus (page images at HathiTrust)
• De thermis Andreae Baccii Elpidiani ... libri septem : opus locupletissimum, non solum medicis necessarium, verumetiam studiosis variarum rerum naturae perutiel : in quo agitur de vniuersa aquarum natura, deq[ue] differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus cum metallis : de lacubus fontibus, fluminibus : de balneis totius orbis & de methodo medendi per balneas ... (Apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1571), by Andrea Bacci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus dem antiken Badewesen. (Allgemeine Medizinische Verlagsanstalt, 1910), by Karl Sudhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luxurious bathing (Field & Tuer ;, 1880), by Andrew White Tuer, Tristram Ellis, Scribner & Welford, and Field & Tuer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sanitation of bath houses (William T. Comstock company, 1922), by Wm. Paul Gerhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nauheim bath (Nauheim Bath, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Differentiation in rheumatic diseases : so-called (J. & A. Churchill, 1892), by Hugh Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electro-thermal bath (Chicago, 1877), by Justin Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description des bains des romains (Printed by G. Scott, and to be had of the author, 1772), by Charles Cameron and Andrea Palladio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabbriche' antiche' (Londra, 1730), by Andrea Palladio, Richard Boyle Burlington, Isaac Ware, and Paul Fourdrinier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on baths : including cold, sea, warm, hot, vapour, gas, and mud baths; also, on the watery regimen, hydropathy, and pulmonary inhalation ... / by John Bell. (Barrington and Haswell, 1850), by John Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washing facilities and baths ... (H. M. Stationery Off., 1916), by Great Britain. Ministry of Munitions. Health of Munition Workers Committee and George Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourses on cold and warm bathing; with remarks on the effects of drinking cold water in warm weather ... (John Eliot, 1818), by John Gorham Coffin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thermes des Romains (Per Francesco Modena, 1785), by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, Francesco Modena, Gaetano Testolini, Carlo Barrera, and Andrea Palladio (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the bath. (Domestic Engineering, 1922), by Edwin L. Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bani : s prilozhenīem khromolitografirovannago proekta (Izd. P.P. Soĭkina, 1903), by V. L. Maksimov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kuren und bäder. (Pan-verlag, 1905), by M. Mendelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Turkish bath ([publisher not identified], in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso della religione antica de Romani (Appresso Gugl. Rovillio, 1559), by Guillaume Du Choul, Bruce Rogers, Georges Reverdy, Pierre Eskrich, Gabriele Simeoni, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A methodical synopsis of mineral waters : comprehending the most celebrated medicinal waters, both cold and hot, of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several other parts of the world ... (Printed for William Johnston ..., 1757), by John Rutty (page images at HathiTrust)
• A booke of the natures and properties, as well of the bathes in England, as of other bathes in Germany and Italy : very necessary for all seik persones, that can not be healed without the helpe of natural bathes (in the 18th century), by William Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baths and bathing (Gutenberg ebook)
• Luxurious Bathing, by Andrew White Tuer, illust. by Tristram J. Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)

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