VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS: Glossary: showers: needle douche |

The needle (douche) shower

Advertisement for a popular needle shower to be found in many Turkish baths from the late 19th century onwards.

< The Turkish bath: its design and construction / Robert Owen Allsop. — London : Spon, 1890

A needle shower in use at a thermal Spa in Aix-les-Bains at the beginning of the 20th century.

< Reproduced from a postcard in the collection of the Victorian Turkish Bath Project: Aix-les-bains—Etablissement Thermal. Douche en cercle. — Aix-les-Bains : Libraire, Papeterie Cartier, c.1910

The original photograph is from Julien frères, Genève.

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Aerotone baths

Banya (see: Russian baths)

Chibouk, or Chibouque

Cold water cure (see: Hydropathy)

Electric baths

Electro-Turkish baths

Foam baths (see: Aerotone baths; Zotofoam baths)

Galvanic baths (see: Electric baths)

Hammam

Hookah (see: Narghile)

Hydropathy

Islamic hammam (see: Hammam )

Steam baths (see: Russian baths)

Surround shower (see: Needle shower )

Turkish baths (see: Victorian Turkish bath)

Vapour baths (see: Russian baths)

Water cure (see: Hydropathy)

Wet sheet pack (see: Hydropathy)

Victorian Turkish bath

Zotofoam baths

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