The Medical history of waters and spas
- Title
- The Medical history of waters and spas / edited by Roy Porter.
- Published by
- London : Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1990.
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- Additional authors
- Description
- xii, 150 pages : illustrations, portraits.
- Series statement
- Medical historySupplement, 0025-7273 ; no. 10
- Uniform title
- Medical historySupplement ; no. 10.
- Subject
- Geschichte 400 v. Chr.-1990
- Health resorts > Utilization > History
- Hydrotherapy > History
- Medicine > History
- Balneology > history
- Health Resorts > history
- History of Medicine
- history of medicine
- Health resorts > Utilization
- Hydrotherapy
- Medicine
- Balneotherapie
- Heilbad
- Kongress
- Baden (hygiëne)
- Geneeskrachtige bronnen
- Hydrothérapie > Histoire
- Stations climatiques, thermales, etc. > Histoire
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Konferenzschrift – 1988 – London.
- Contents
- Waters and spas in the classical world / Ralph Jackson -- "In this our lightye and learned tyme": Italian baths in the era of the Renaissance / Richard Palmer -- The development of the spa in seventeenth-century France / L.W.B. Brockliss -- A sword in a madman's hand: professional opposition to popular consumption in the waters literature of southern England and the Midlands, 1570-1870 / David Harley -- Physicians, chemists, and the analysis of mineral waters: "The most difficult part of chemistry" / Noel G. Coley -- Chemistry, medicine, and the legitimization of English spas, 1740-1840 / Christopher Hamlin -- A trial of the Bath Waters: the treatment of lead poisoning / Audrey Heywood -- Spas and sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern / Janet Browne -- Arthur Stanley Wohlmann, the first government balneologist in New Zealand / Ralph H. Johnson -- The contradictions of specialization: rheumatism and the decline of the spa in inter-war Britain / David Cantor.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references and index.