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A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries -- .

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 The theory and practice of the water cure
2 The development and marketing of specialist water cure resorts
3 Specialisation at the water cure: institutions and skilled workers
4 Water cure, regimen and healthy living
5 Water, health and leisure
6 National assets and national interests: spas and the state
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Healing with water

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 3/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719095696, 978-0719095696
      ISBN10: 0719095697

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1 The theory and practice of the water cure
      2 The development and marketing of specialist water cure resorts
      3 Specialisation at the water cure: institutions and skilled workers
      4 Water cure, regimen and healthy living
      5 Water, health and leisure
      6 National assets and national interests: spas and the state
      Conclusion
      Bibliography
      Index

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