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Cure Collection (page 7)

Background imageCure Collection: Beppu - Sand Baths at the Hot Springs

Beppu - Sand Baths at the Hot Springs
Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred

Background imageCure Collection: Poster advertising Besancon la Mouillere

Poster advertising Besancon la Mouillere in France, a healthy place with a salt water cure for mothers and their children

Background imageCure Collection: Poster advertising San Salvadour, France

Poster advertising San Salvadour, France
Poster advertising San Salvadour, near Hyeres, France, popular for its winter cures for arthritis and its mineral waters

Background imageCure Collection: Sun Platform at Princess Marys Hospital, Margate, Kent

Sun Platform at Princess Marys Hospital, Margate, Kent
Children being treated on a sun platform at the Princess Marys Hospital, Wilderness Road, Margate, Kent. The site, originally known as Eastcliff House

Background imageCure Collection: Advertisement for the doctor James Hallett

Advertisement for the doctor James Hallett
Undated advertisement for the " doctor" James Hallett, " the original curer of all diseases", listing all the diseases and ailments he is able to cure by herbs and ointments

Background imageCure Collection: The Royal Baths - Harrogate, Yorkshire (2 / 2)

The Royal Baths - Harrogate, Yorkshire (2 / 2)
The Royal Baths - Harrogate, Yorkshire (2/2). Massage Douche (Shower) Room - Aix System (from Aix-en-Provence, France)

Background imageCure Collection: Description of a Lourdes cure

Description of a Lourdes cure
A description on the front of a Lourdes postcard describing a cure witnessed by the author, James Gardener, sent to his daughter who was a nun

Background imageCure Collection: The Rest-Cure

The Rest-Cure
Society goes to Monte Carlo to recuperate from the strain and excitement of the season. A colour illustration showing a busy roulette wheel table

Background imageCure Collection: Dr. Scotts Electric Hair Brush

Dr. Scotts Electric Hair Brush
Advertisement for Dr. Scotts Electric Hair Brush, 1883. This advert claimed the brush could cure headaches, neuralgia, baldness, dandruff and Immediately soothe the weary brain

Background imageCure Collection: Electric brush

Electric brush
A detailed advertisement from 1883 for Dr. Scotts Electric Hair Brush, claiming to cure a variety of ills, from headaches to deafness, baldness to a weary brain

Background imageCure Collection: Freezing Human Tissue

Freezing Human Tissue
Suspended animation by freezing human tissue may not only be the way to cure many incurable diseases, but could be a way to suspend and re-animate life itself !

Background imageCure Collection: A Bastuto Witch Doctor

A Bastuto Witch Doctor
A sketch made from a photograph by Mr F. Armstrong. The Witch Doctor pictured is said to be highly regarded within his tribe

Background imageCure Collection: The Lion, Wolf and Fox

The Lion, Wolf and Fox
THE SICK LION, THE FOX & THE WOLF: the animals pay the lion respects, except the fox; slandered by the wolf, the fox tells the lion his cure lies in the flaying of the wolf

Background imageCure Collection: Fable / Lion, Wolf & Fox

Fable / Lion, Wolf & Fox
THE LION, THE WOLF AND THE FOX: An old lion, wishing to find a cure, summons his animals. The wolf slanders the fox, but finds he comes off worst in the end

Background imageCure Collection: Advertisement for liver pills

Advertisement for liver pills
Carters little liver pills, to cure all liver ills

Background imageCure Collection: Children being treated with ultra-violet light

Children being treated with ultra-violet light
Three children being treated with ultra-violet rays to cure rickets. Their goggles were designed to protect them from becoming sun burnt in the artificial sunlight

Background imageCure Collection: Electropathic belt

Electropathic belt
Advertisement from 1885 for the Pall Mall Electric Associations Electropathic Belt. Claiming to cure a wide range of ailments, including rheumatism, indigestion, lumbago, sciatica

Background imageCure Collection: Dr. Scotts electric corset

Dr. Scotts electric corset
Advertisement from 1886 for Dr. Scotts Electric Corset, considered a great boon for the delicate and able to cure all manner of ailments including palpitation, nervousness, hysteria

Background imageCure Collection: Gladstone wearing an electropathic belt

Gladstone wearing an electropathic belt
Advertisement from 1886 for the Medical Battery Companys Electropathic Belt, featuring a caricature of William Gladstone, Prime Minister wielding an axe and wearing the belt

Background imageCure Collection: To cure tube stuffiness

To cure tube stuffiness
Image showing a new experiment on the London Underground to cure tubes of their stuffiness, whereby the Central London Railway Company proposed to spray the tunnels every night to combat the dryness

Background imageCure Collection: Francisque Crotte / 1901

Francisque Crotte / 1901
Francois Crottes electrical cure for TB being demonstrated on a female sufferer

Background imageCure Collection: Colour Cure Ward / 1918

Colour Cure Ward / 1918
H. Kemp-Prossors colour cure ward for shell shock cases, at McCaul hospital, Welbeck Street

Background imageCure Collection: DU LAURENS (1558-1609)

DU LAURENS (1558-1609)
ANDRE DU LAURENS Court physician to Henry IV of France. Believed the royal touch could cure disease and encouraged Henry to touch as many people as possible! Date: 1558 - 1609

Background imageCure Collection: Touching Relics

Touching Relics
Pilgrims touch the relics of St Philip, hoping for a cure

Background imageCure Collection: Irish Fairy Doctor / 1859

Irish Fairy Doctor / 1859
An Irish peasant family is visited by the Fairy Doctor, believed to be able to cure afflictions that baffle the village doctor

Background imageCure Collection: Native American Healer

Native American Healer
A Native American medicine man seeks to cure a patient by ritual dance

Background imageCure Collection: Surgery Cures Handicap

Surgery Cures Handicap
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: crippled man reconstructed by skillful surgeon

Background imageCure Collection: Plastic Surgery / New Head

Plastic Surgery / New Head
EXTREME PLASTIC SURGERY - satire on unrealistic expectations for surgery: young woman patient exchanges ugly head for pretty one

Background imageCure Collection: French Wise Woman

French Wise Woman
A French village wise woman uses her secret herbs to cure her patient

Background imageCure Collection: Plants Herbs

Plants Herbs
Doctor Bokanky, a street herbalist in the streets of Victorian London, offering the Kalibonca Root as a cure-all

Background imageCure Collection: A Cure for Gout

A Cure for Gout
The waistcoat pocket remedy for gout

Background imageCure Collection: Advert for Baldness Cure

Advert for Baldness Cure
Going bald

Background imageCure Collection: Edward VII in Marienbad

Edward VII in Marienbad for the water cure; Sir Stanley Clarke and Major Ponsonby in attendance

Background imageCure Collection: Spirit of Mount Fuji

Spirit of Mount Fuji
The Spirit of Mount Fuji shows Yosoji the health-giving stream which will cure his mothers smallpox

Background imageCure Collection: Hezekiah and Isaiah

Hezekiah and Isaiah
Hezekiah, king of Judah, is fatally ill, but he asks God to give him a further 15 years, so the prophet Isaiah is given the power to cure him

Background imageCure Collection: Kniepp Cure

Kniepp Cure
Diagrams to show the Kniepp cure, which involves the knee jet, head infusion and walking barefoot in wet grass

Background imageCure Collection: Roux / Cure for Croup / 1894

Roux / Cure for Croup / 1894
Dr. Roux administering his cure for croup, a throat disease which affects children

Background imageCure Collection: Kochs Tuberculosis Cure

Kochs Tuberculosis Cure
Kochs tuberculosis cure; a patient is inoculated in the back of her neck

Background imageCure Collection: Reno, Nevada

Reno, Nevada
Six weeks in Nevada - the cure !

Background imageCure Collection: Concepts / Angels / Raphael

Concepts / Angels / Raphael
The archangel Raphael advises Tobias to catch a fish which leaps out of the water to attack him, because with its gall he can cure the blindness of his father Tobit

Background imageCure Collection: Mesmer Glorified

Mesmer Glorified
Mesmer is crowned by a jester as he stands on a balloon inflated by his followers, including a cleric, calling down the power of the sun to cure his patients

Background imageCure Collection: Malvern Water Cure (1)

Malvern Water Cure (1)
(1 of 12) Water Cure at Malvern The Packing " Don t I look very like a Mummy!"

Background imageCure Collection: Smokey Fireplace / Cartoon

Smokey Fireplace / Cartoon
Sir Pompey Bedell: " This wretched chimney has got into a most objectionable way of smoking! I can t cure it" Bedell Junior: " Give it a couple of your cigars!"

Background imageCure Collection: German Potato Doctors

German Potato Doctors
Potatoes have their own doctors in Germany, where a special department exists for the inspection of diseases. Research is instituted to find a cure for any such diseases

Background imageCure Collection: Saint-Medard, Cure

Saint-Medard, Cure
SAINT-MEDARD, Paris Marguerite Francoise du Chene is one of the convulsionnaires who is cured of her ailment, haemorrhage and fever, at the tomb of M. de Paris

Background imageCure Collection: Unloading Spanish Salt

Unloading Spanish Salt
Men unloading a cargo of Marine (sea) salt from Spain. at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. Produced from evaporated sea water, it will be used to salt and cure fish

Background imageCure Collection: Mesmers Patient

Mesmers Patient
Mesmers reputation suffers when mlle Paradis, a blind patient he failed to cure, turns up at the French court playing clavecin at Marie Ant- oinettes spiritual concert

Background imageCure Collection: Legrand / Showgirl

Legrand / Showgirl
Mademoiselle Lucienne Legrand, in the film Mon Cure chez les Riches. She sits on a tall stall, smoking a cigarette and wearing a pink one piece, pearls, earings and hat



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