Oversize ephemera. EPH+27.

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Subject coverage includes: toilet design (J. Brown, Joseph Bramah), East London Water Works (share certificate 1852), West Middlesex Water Works (share certificate 1872), Metropolitan Water Board (share certificate 1907), Wigan Urban Sanitary Authority (1884), F. Whittlesea (sanitary engineer, 1936), Isle of Wight Electric Light and Power Company Ltd. (1909), waterspouts (Borough of Ipswich 1860), water supply (Rugby Local Board of Health 1866, Thames Water 1992), reasons for passing the Water Bill (1720?), Frederick Lipscombe's self-cleaning charcoal water cistern filter (1875), sewage disposal (Grenada, Thames Water 1992), Henley and London Water-Works and Navigation Company, Rivers pollution prevention act (1876), cemetary and burial rules (1886), 1880 British law on restricting new burial grounds, orthopathy (R.G. Lemont), edict against those not practising natural medicine (Firenze, 1723), hot air therapy for cholera (Sudatorium, 1832), electric (high-frequency) therapy being demonstrated on King Edward in the National Hospital for the Paralysed and the Epileptic (1909), fatigue banished by the Sir Herbert Barker shoe (1934), J.S. Barwick & Co.'s 'Instra' warming device prevents chills, colds, rheumatism, lumbago, fever and dysentery pains), A. Vogel's Venaforce (for varicose veins) and Atrogel (analgesic gel, 2009), the natural spring spa at Bilin (Bohemia) with its cure establishments, water therapy and Bilin Digestive Tablets (1890s?).

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1 folder ; 60 cm.

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