Treatments Collection

Crieff Hydropathic - Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland
Crieff Hydro is a hotel in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland which opened in 1868 as the Crieff Hydropathic Establishment. Founded in 1868 by Dr Thomas Henry Meikle with an emphasis on exercise

X-Ray, radium, surgery - the three recognized treatments for cancer Consult your doctor or health bureau. Poster promoting diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Date between 1936 and 1939

The Harrogate Hydro, spa and hotel in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate with accommodation for 300 guests and the very latests in hydropathic treatments

Helena Rubinstein advertisement
Advertisement for Helena Rubinstein of Grafton Street, London, specifically hormone creams claiming to recreate vital glandular elements of " first youth". Date: 1932

Mr. Vernon-Ward's Treatment Salons
A photograph of the interior entrance hall which leads to Mr. Vernon-Ward's treatment salons, at Vere Street. The medical establishment had some fame for combatting obesity via fat reduction

Beard Watson Ltd Advertisement
Advertisement illustration for Beard Watson Ltd, suppliers of furniture, floor covering and furnishing fabrics. The image shows a very nicely furnished living room

The Elizabeth Arden eye strap was made of soft rubber, and was intended to mitigate puffiness beneath the eyes. Date: circa 1932

Apparatus for the Removal of the Double Chin 1927
Fashionable beauty parlour, a Parisian lady wearing a special mask to achieve a Cameosque profile. Date: 1927

Assist the Remedies of Nature 1933
Removal superfluous hair: A warm mixture paraffin and shellac applied to the ladies eyebrows and peeled off a few minutes later. Date: 1933

Apparatus that Assist the Remedies of Nature 1933
A cure for facial blemishes: The Siemens-Reinger apparatus, treatment by the means of X-rays anything from tiny warl to a widespread skin disease. Date: 1933

Woman Having her Hair Dried 1928
A woman sits under a chrome-plated hair dryer, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

Ray-Lamp Treatments 1928
Strange metal Blinkers to achieve beauty: A client taking a Ray-Lamp treatment, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

Advertisement for Elizabeth Arden claiming to turn an appearance gone to pieces into loveliness. Date: 1939

London health club 1926
A group of Hippodrome women from Mercenary Mary enjoying a sun bath, opened in Albemarle Street, London Date: 1926

Clarks Thinning Bath Salts
A woman adding Clarks famous Thinning Bath Salts her to her bath in the hope of achieving a slim figure required of modern fashions. 1928

Advert for Sanitas flu fumigator 1897
Advertisement for Sanitas fumigator, for the treatment of influenza and other lung and throat infections. Date: 1897

Hot Mineral Spring of Bath 1897
Highly efficacious for gout, rheumatism and skin affections. Latest appliances and methods of treatment Roman Ramains & Historic Houses Date: 1897

Edwardian society womens beauty treatments 1906
Edwardian ladies believed that it was their duty as a woman to look beautiful. Showing a variety of photographs of society women enduring treatment to help repair from seasons ravages. 1

Advert for Sanitas flu fumigator 1900
Advertisement for Sanitas fumigator, for the treatment of influenza and other lung and throat infections. Date: 1900

Temporary Treatment of Bone Fractures, including rifle used as a splint, cricket bat used as a splint, slings, triangular bandages, shawl caps, huntsmans whips used as splint

Advert for Rowlands Macassar Oil 1902
Preserves the hair, beautifies the hair, prevents baldness and scurf. 1902

Advert for Edwards Harlene hair product 1893
Harlene for the hair, World-renowned hair producer and restorer. Prevents baldness and turning grey. 1893

Harlene hair tonic advertisement, WW1
First World War advertisement for Harlene hair products, discussing in great detail the alarming epidemic of hair troubles resulting from war conditions

Helena Rubinstein advert, The War Face, WW1
Advertisement for Helena Rubinstein beauty treatments, asking, Is yours a " war face" ? It It claims that 99 out of a 100 women were showing the strain of the war in their faces and that

Allcocks Porous Plasters, a safe and sure remedy. Warming and soothing, relieving and curing Asthma, Lumbago, Sciatica, Colds, Kinks, Quinsy, Spasms, Rheumatism

Advert for Koko hair tonic 1897
Unquestionably the best dressing for the hair. Prevents hair falling and promotes growth. 1897

Page of Victorian adverts 1889
A 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

Scenes from a Parisian Beauty Parlour
" One must suffer in order to be beautiful." This page from " The Sphere" depicts the latest treatments being employed in Parisian beauty parlours

Advert for Mrs. Adair, Genesh Patent chin strap 1905
Genesh Patent chin strap, cures double chin, and takes away the line from nose to month. Strong straps to cure snoring and Domino straps to cure puffiness under eyes and takes away lines

Advert for Edwards Harlene hair product 1902
Harlene for the hair, the great hair producer and restorer, World renowed remedy for baldness. Endorsed by Mabel Love, British dancer and stage actress, celebrated as a young woman of beauty. 1902

Advert for Harness Electropathic Belt 1889
Health restored by means of mild continuous currents of electricity generated (without shock) by wearing Harness Electropathic Belt, thousands have been treated

Advert for Electropathic & Zander Institute 1892
Electropathic treatment showing the interior of a private consulting and treatment room in Oxford Street, the comfortable Harness Belt for men and women that gives support

Advert for Harness Electropathic Belt 1892
Comfortable to wear and guaranteed, the Harness Electropathic Belt, with a mild continuous current of electricity which cannot fail to invigorate the debilitated constitution. 1892

Artificial sunlight lamps 1929
Homesun lamps, helping with nerve weakness, insomnia and such conditions. Date: 1929

Advert for Reduca chin-strap helmet 1933
Regain a youthful chin-line, nothing betrays a womans age more definitely than a double-chin, yet this can be comfortably removed (or prevented) with the new Reduca chin-strap helmet. 1933

Helena Rubinstein light treatment for wrinkles, 1917
The blue light treatment at Madame Helena Rubinstein s, to transform the woman with lined and tired eyes, as it feeds the skin and overcomes wrinkles. Date: 1917

Helena Rubinstein facial, 1917
A lady receiving the famous skin-clearing treatment at the beauty salon of the legendary Madame Helena Rubinstein. Date: 1917

Electrical Skin treatment Demonstration, 1887
Aleksei Gerasimovich Polotebnov (1838 to 1907) was a pioneering Russian Dermatologist. He invented and demonstrated numerous skin treatments designed to prevent or cure skin diseases of all types

Yessentuki, Russia - Spa Town
Yessentuki - a city in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located at the base of the Caucasus Mountains - Health Resort town in the Stavropol Krai region

Blood Transfusion / 1667
Blood transfusion, by injection Date: 1667

Your blood is bad means you have syphilis You can give it to others through sexual intercourse and in other ways : You must keep up treatments for at least six months to one year following infection

Eyebrow shaping advertisement
Advertisement for Phyllis Earle salons of London recommending eyebrow shaping by professionals in order to achieve the delicate arch which is so desirable. Date: 1927

Sun ray treatment, 1923
A woman enjoys the wonderful sun-ray treatment evolved and available at the Maison de Beaute Pompadour in Dover Street, London by Madame Jacobson

Woman in a Turkish bath
Turkish Bath, Hairdressing, Reposing Room. A woman reposing, receiving some sort of massage therapy in a Turkish bath. Date: 1904

Taking a Hot Sulphur Bath at Baden, Germany Date: 1909

Rotorua Museum, North Island, New Zealand
View of the Rotorua Museum of Art and History, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. The museum is housed in the historic Bath House building, located in the Government Gardens

Trencianske Teplice - Slovakia
Trencianske Teplice - a health resort and small spa town in western Slovakia, in the valley of the river Teplicka, at the foothills of the Strazovske vrchy mountains

Celik Palace Hotel, Bursa, Turkey - Water Treatments
Celik Palace Hotel, Bursa, Turkey. This Hotel boasts a standard mineral bath from a mountainside source but also a radioactive water source

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