A Glossary of some terms
used on the website

 

This glossary is not intended to be comprehensive,
but simply to clarify terms which are often confusing,
to define some specialist terms,
and to point to alternatives
for those not used on the website

 

The needle (douche) shower

  Hayward Tyler needle shower Needle shower at Aix-les-bains

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

Reproduced from a postcard. Aix-les-bains—Etablissement Thermal. Douche en cercle. — Aix-les-Bains : Libraire, Papeterie Cartier, c.1910

The original photograph is from Julien frères, Genève.

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

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


The postcard is from the collection of the Victorian Turkish Baths Project

This page last updated 20 March 2011

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