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Cold running Sitz Bath - The Water CureHeres nice treatment! A cold running sitz bath at six in the morning, a bandage on the head, and snow on the ground - The Water Cure. 1870
Bound Hand and Foot - The Water CureI am inclined to knock these fellows down, but how can I, bound hand and foot like this - The Water Cure. 1870
Bathing - The Water Cure. 1870
A wasp threatens to settle on my nose - The Water CureJust as the doctor has fixed me in my arm and leg bath, a wasp threatens to settle on my nose - The Water Cure. 1870
Advert for Milton against influenza 1918Advertisement for Milton sterilising fluid, recommended for preventing and relieving influenza at a time when Spanish flu was rapidly spreading across the world. 1918
Music cover, I m Sister to the Cure, Valse Comique by H T Swatton, sung by E Marshall, dedicated to C Morton, drawn by Alfred Concanen
Advert for Geraudels Pastilles, cough sweets. 1893
Advertisement for Geraudels Pastilles. 1893
Burmese advert in Chinese for Tiger Headache CureBurmese advert for Tiger Trademark Headache Cure - Take immediately for headache and tooth for a fast cure. Produced by Eng Aun Tong (Yong An) in Rangoon Burma (Yangon)
Days Black Drink - Cures for animalsAdvert for Days Black Drink, Cures for Horses, Colts, Cattle and Sheep. 1893
Ruined church near Western Front, WW1Ruined church near the Western Front, First World War. 1914-1918
Water-induced restDesigned to cause sleep, a device providing a continual flow of water across the forehead of a person suffering from insomnia
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the ExchequerAspiring H. Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) - Chancellor of the Exchequer (1892-1895) - seated by the bedside of the church - bearing medicine for Bishops. Date: 1900
Charlatan or Quack Doctor - 17th century EnglandA Charlatan peddling patent medicines to gullible 17th century purchsers - pictured here with a monkey assistant. 17th century
Professor Paul Ehrlich (1854 - 1915), Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish physician and scientistand Dr. Sahachiro Hata (1873 - 1938) prominent Japanese bacteriologist, working in Frankfort laboratory
Patent Electropathic Battery Belt for men and women
Natural Hot Spring Bath at Bursa, Turkeycirca 1910s
France - Bagnoles-de-LOrne - Grand Hotel and the Lake - view taken near to the Casino. This commune is famous for its hydrotherapic baths
Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1895Every man & woman in search of heath & strength, all sufferers from disorders of the nerves, stomach, liver or kidneys should procure and wear. Date: 1895
CHOLERA / 1892 / ASTRAKHANIn the belief that doctors cause cholera, and that only God can cure it, the populace of Astrakhan riot. Date: 1892
1892 / CHOLERA RIOT / RUSSIAIn the belief that doctors cause cholera, and that only God can cure it, the populace of Astrakhan riot. Date: 1892
Medicine - 17th century Quack DoctorHere you may be cured ! - a 17th century quack stands beside his counter, strewn with wonderful potions and elixirs to cure all ailments Date: circa 1670
EAR-CORRECTION BONNETBonnet Plaque Oreilles intended to prevent the childs ears from being detached (decollement doreilles) or possibly to cure sticking out ears? Date: 1950s
SURGERY CURES INFIDELITYSATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: infidelity cured by replacing much-pierced heart Date: 1847
SURGERY CURES STUPIDITYSATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain! Date: 1847
Surgery cures ugliness 1847SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young woman patient exchanges ugly head for pretty one Date: 1847
Advertising postcard for Owbridges Lung Tonic - IndiaAdvertising postcard for Owbridges Lung Tonic ( A Royal Cure for Coughs and Colds ) showing cases of the magical medicine being transported by two elephants in India. Date: circa 1900s
Advertisement - The new pocket AmmoniaphoneAdvertisement for the new pocket Ammoniaphone (A perfect chemical inhaler) as recommended by Adelina Patti (1843-1919) the Italian-French 19th-century opera singer Date: circa 1890s
Doggies take the drinking cure at St Anns Well, BuxtonTwo doggies take the drinking cure at the well of St Ann, Buxton, Derbyshire. Date: circa 1908
Dax, France - Thermal Baths - Mud bath Treatment. Date: 1923
Shaker Extract of Roots (Seigels Syrup) - cures DyspepsiaTwo healthy children, who have obviously been taking their Shaker Extract of Roots (Seigels Syrup) - cures Indigestion and Dyspepsia. A. J. White - Proprietor, 168 Duane Street, New York, USA
Advert for Trilene Tablets, weight loss 1898All Fat People, Victorian advert for a cure for overweight people, reducing your weight in a few weeks by simply taking Trilene Tablets. Date: 1898
Penicillin bottleBottle of penicillin (Calcium Salt) dated 28/12/1943. The bottle contains enough penicillin for the treatment of ten life threatiening cases. Date: 1944
Switzerland - High Altitude Clinic of Dr Rollier at Le SepeySwitzerland - The Hazels - A High Altitude Clinic of Dr. Auguste Rollier (The Sun Doctor) at Le Sepey, Cergnat - specialising in Sunlight Cure for children with TB and respiratory conditions (see)
Advertisement, Dr Williams pink pills for pale people. Mother weak from childhood. Son a victim of St Vitus Dance. The patent medicine pills contained iron oxide and magnesium sulphate
St Philomena (Full)SAINT PHILOMENA Though much venerated by the Cure d Ars and others, this Roman martyr never lived - her supposed existence arose from an archeological mistake Date: NEVER
Palmistry - BelotSchematic representation of the left hand, as perceived by Jean BELOT, Cure de Mil-Monts, French chiromancer and practitioner of other magical and divinatory arts Date: 1611
Advertisement for Venos Lightning Cough Cure, superimposed on a photograph of a London street. early 20th century
Page of Victorian adverts 1889A variety of advertisements in The Graphic dated August 1889, showing Nuda Veritas hair restorer, Nubian, black polish for boots and shoes, Nortons Camomile Pills, for indigestion
Royal Victoria Hospital Farm Colony, Polton, ScotlandPatients plough the land and plant seed potatoes at the Farm Colony (founded in 1910) at The Royal Victoria Hospital, founded in 1894
Advertisment for diet pillsAdvert for Trilene diet pills with the tag line Fat People can be cured 1913
Salt Water dispenser - Frantiskovy Lazne Spa, Czech RepublicSalt Water dispenser (fountain) at the Frantiskovy Lazne (German: Franzensbad) - a town in Cheb District of Karlovy Vary Region in the western Bohemia (Czech Republic), near the town of Cheb
Jesus healing the sick. Engraving. ColoredNew Testament. Jesus healing the sick. Gospel of Matthew, Chapter IV, Verses 23-25. Drawing by Gustave Dore. Engraving by Bertrand. 19th century. Colored
Easter. Jesus went to the pool of Bethesda (Jerusalem) where there were many sick. An angel stirred the water and the first to be launched, was healing. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin
Due to the womans faith, Jesus heals her possessed daughter. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy
Advert for Carbolic smoke ball 1892Carbolic smoke ball, Hay Fever positively cured and prevented. Testimonials include It acted like magic! It is simply invaluable!. 1892
Pilgrims at the Grotto, Lourdes, FrancePilgrims at the Grotto in Lourdes, France. More benches have been added, and the quantity of discarded crutches has increased over the years, each one of them representing a miracle cure ! Date: 1905
Victims of Saint Vitus Dance go on pilgrimage to Echternach, Luxembourg. Date: 16th century