The Turkish bath as a therapy:
a booklet by Dr Charles H Shepard
    The Turkish bath as a therapy:  

             
 A booklet by Dr Charles Shepard who opened the first Victorian Turkish bath in the United States of America, at 63, Columbia Street, Brooklyn Heights,  New York, on 6 October 1863.

The illustration is taken with permission from an A3 size poster which was available from The World of Massage Museum. It is not currently known whether the museum has survived the death of its founder, Robert Noah Calvert, in April 2006.
          

This page enlarges an image or adds to the information found on the following pages:

The first Turkish baths in the USA. Part 1: Brooklyn Heights

Early problems and controversies. Part 5: doctors' attitudes

Early Turkish baths for animals. Part 1 Introduction

Women and the Victorian Turkish bath. Part 7: the bath and women's health

             

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Victorian Turkish Baths:

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