The Turkish bath as a therapy:
a booklet by Dr Charles H Shepard
< The illustration is taken, with permission, from an A3 size poster which was available from The World of Massage Museum.
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.
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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
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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