Health Collection (page 18)

Women's League of Health
The Women's League of Health and Beauty presenting an exercise demonstration in Hyde Park. The League was founded in 1930 by Mary Bagot Stack. Date: 1932

Victorian Spoof Joke 1880s New Year Weatherly
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Birthday card, Lots of Luck, with three black cats and a top hat Date: 20th century

Boy with doctor and pudding on a comic New Year card
Boy with doctor and humanised pudding on a comic New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Comic German postcard -- health spa new invention
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- greetings from Karlsbad -- a grossly overweight man uses a new invention for abdominal support, looking very much like a wheelbarrow. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets
Comic German postcard -- desperate men and women run towards the health spa toilets. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilet engaged
Comic German postcard -- greetings from Karlsbad -- nine desperate, overweight men wait outside the health spa toilet. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa doctor and patient
Comic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- the doctor at a health spa examines a grossly overweight female patient. Date: 1909

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets all engaged
Comic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- desperate, overweight men discover that all the toilets at the health spa are engaged. Date: 1909

Comic German postcard -- paying for access
Comic German postcard -- desperate, overweight men paying for access to the toilet at a health spa. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- getting better every day for a man at a health spa. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- greetings from Karlsbad -- equipment for spa guests, focusing around the smallest room. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- mud bath at a health spa
Comic German postcard -- an overweight man is hosed off after a mud bath at a health spa -- A glimmer of light in the dark! Date: circa 1900s

New Year Season Ticket 1889, Health and Prosperity Line -- red cover, with gold lettering, With Greetings for the Season, Available to All. (2 of 2) Date: 1889

First Class Contract, spoof ticket, 25 December, available by all routes to Prosperity, Health and Happiness. Date: circa 1880s

Cutout advertisement, Granola digestive biscuits
Cutout advertisement, Macfarlane Langs Granola digestive biscuits, with wheat field and windmill. Date: early 20th century

A covered walkway to the Source de Parc in Vichy Date: c.1910

Cartoon, Henry Irving and Harry Hart
Cartoon, Henry Irving, theatre manager, and Harry Hart, nicknamed the " Happy Hebrew", music hall manager, commenting on how the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington is

WW2 German hospital, Jersey, Channel Islands
Operating theatre in a WW2 German hospital, Jersey, Channel Islands. It was an underground hospital, built in the cliffs by Polish prisoners and used for the treatment of wounded officers

Advertisement for Andrews Liver Salt -- A Merry Andrew. circa 1925

Civil Hospital, Crater (Kraytar), Aden
Civil Hospital, Crater (Kraytar, Seera), British colony of Aden (now in Yemen). Date: circa 1940s

European General Hospital, Steamer Point, Aden
European General Hospital, Steamer Point, British colony of Aden (now in Yemen). Date: circa 1908

Naval Hospital, Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Naval Hospital, Trincomalee, Eastern Province, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1908

The Hot Stream at the Shibaseki Hot Spring, Beppu, Japan
The Hot Stream at the Shibaseki Hot Spring (Onsen), Beppu, Oita, Japan. The volume of water discharged at Beppu is second only to that of the Yellowstone National Park

Nuttall Memorial Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, with six nurses and two men on a terrace. Date: circa 1925

Prunella Stack, Lady Douglas-Hamilton
Ann Prunella Stack (1915-2011), who achieved fame as the President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, taking a health and beauty class in London. 1940

British Hospital in Port Said, Egypt
Front view on the British Hospital in Port Said, Egypt Date: 1923

Advertisement for Venos Lightning Cough Cure, superimposed on a photograph of a London street. early 20th century

Brimstone and Treacle -- probably a reference to a Victorian aperient medicine. 19th century

St. Marys Cottage Hospital, Plaistow, East London, showing nurses and children. 1893

Military Hospital, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa
Kings House, St John Auxiliary Military Hospital, Durban, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: 1930s

Victoria Cottage Hospital, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa. Date: circa 1908

Vichy, France - one of the springs called La Grande Grille, which produced 3000 litres and hour at a temperature of 41 degrees. circa 1920

Maseru Hospital, Basutoland, South Africa
Maseru Hospital, Basutoland (now Lesotho), South Africa. This two-storey sandstone building was constructed circa 1904 with approximately thirty beds. Date: circa 1904

Salt Water dispenser - Frantiskovy Lazne Spa, Czech Republic
Salt 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

Horder Centre, Crowborough, East Sussex
People in the cafe, several of them in wheelchairs, at the Horder Centre, founded by Mrs Cecilia Bochenek (?-1981). Despite being crippled by arthritis and confined to a wheelchair

Happy Families - Miss Thomas Atkins. circa 1940s

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Women taking roses to make rose water wi
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Women taking roses to make rose water with its petals. Folio 93r

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Fencing
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Fencing. Folio 96v

Dentist - The Tooth Drawer. circa 19th century

Group outside Moffat Hydropathic Hotel - believed to be at the front door, the woman on the left is holding a copy of The New Machiavelli. A sign behind them advertises charabancs for hire

Margaret Patten (136)
MARGARET PATTEN When she died in St Margarets Workhouse, London, she was living almost entirely on bread and milk, but was in good health almost to the end Date: 1603 - 1739

Crossword puzzle on a birthday card - solved. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Battle Creek Health Builder 1929
Mechanical massaging exercise machine that with a vibrating belt, used by 80, 000 men and women in the 1920s. Date: 1929

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