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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794892503321

Autore

Adams Jane M

Titolo

Healing with water : English spas and the water cure, 1840-1960

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-7190-9806-8

1-78170-843-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

613.1220941

Soggetti

Health resorts - History - England

Mineral waters - Therapeutic use

Beverages

Physical Therapy Modalities

Therapeutics

Public Facilities

Sanitation

Food and Beverages

Public Health

Environment and Public Health

Health Care

Balneology

Health Resorts

Mineral Waters

Health & Biological Sciences

Medical Geography

History

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.