Healing Waters
Subtitle: A History of Victorian Spas
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781476674599
Subjects: Health resorts; Hot springs
Description: "The modern meaning of the term "spa" describes health resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages, and therapies. The Victorian spa was a sanitarium that provided medical treatments based on the use of water, supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity, and radioactivity. The Victorian spa was to provide gentler alternative treatments that emphasized the healing power of nature"--