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How to bathe : a family guide for the use of water in preserving health and treating disease / by E. P. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Eli Peck, 1828-1912, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bathing customs.
- Baths.
- Hydrotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (vi, 72 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : American News Company, 1869.
- Summary:
- Eli Peck Millar, an 1864 Bellevue Hospital Medical College graduate and A.L Wood were 'resident physicians' at the New York Hygienic Institute in the early 1860s, and assumed ownership after Russell Thatcher Trall transferred his operation to New Jersey in 1867. The new proprietors advertise that they have incorporated into the Institute's hydropathic and hygienic therapeutic program the Turkish Bath, the electro-magnetic bath, the Swedish movement cure and apparatus for exercise therapy.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 112719.D
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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