Healing with water : English spas and the water cure, 1840-1960
Adams, Jane M.Author
'Healing with Water' provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from 1840 to 1960. It investigates health practices and healing cultures at specialist inland resorts showing that water was used in varied therapeutic approaches by both orthodox and unorthodox practitioners.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Healing with Water' provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from 1840 to 1960. It investigates health practices and healing cultures at specialist inland resorts showing that water was used in varied therapeutic approaches by both orthodox and unorthodox practitioners.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 23, 2015).
Health resorts
Mineral waters
Beverages
Physical Therapy Modalities
Therapeutics
Public Facilities
Sanitation
Food and Beverages
Public Health
Environment and Public Health
Health Care
Balneology
Health Resorts
Mineral Waters
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences
Medical Geography