Therapeutic Collection

Mr Sandow Attending To His Days Correspondence, c1898. Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) was a German pioneering bodybuilder known as the father of modern bodybuilding

Hoodia gordonii (Bushman's hat), 1777-1786. Creator: Robert Jacob Gordon
Hoodia gordonii (Bushman's hat), 1777-1786

Portrait of Shelly Manne, 1947 or 1948. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Shelly Manne, 1947 or 1948

Electropathic Battery Belt, 1886. Creator: Unknown
Electropathic Battery Belt, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Winter entertainments at St. Luke's Hospital: vocal and instrumental concert on Wednesday week
Winter entertainments at St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, [Old Street, London]: vocal and instrumental concert on Wednesday week, 1862

An Oiran Seated in a Parlor Applies the Fire Treatment to the Bared Back of Another Woman

Hypnotism, ca. 1845. Creator: John Adams Whipple
Hypnotism, ca. 1845

Mercurialis, (1530-1606), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Mercurialis, (1530-1606), 1830. Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606) Italian philologist and physician, famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica one of the first explanations of physiotherapy

Convalescent Hospital - How soon shall I be able to fly again?, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Convalescent Hospital - How soon shall I be able to fly again?, 1941. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Convalescent Hospital - Pulling his weight, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Convalescent Hospital - Pulling his weight, A serviceman using a weights machine to strengthen his muscles after being wounded. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton

Trephination, 1593. Using an elevator to remove a piece of bone from the skull. Trephination as a therapeutic or magico-religious procedure dates back to Neolithic times

The treatment of German wounded, 1915. Exercising the muscles of the arms by means of embroidery work. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War Vol. III - 1915

One of the Spacious Exercise Halls, c1898. The Sandow Institute of Curative Physical Therapeutics, at 32A, St. Jamess Street, London. From The Connoisseur Volume XXV. [The Connoisseur Ltd

One of the Reception Rooms at the Sandow Institute, c1898. Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) was a German pioneering bodybuilder known as the father of modern bodybuilding

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