The Medical history of waters and spas

Title
  1. The Medical history of waters and spas / edited by Roy Porter.
Published by
  1. London : Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1990.

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Additional authors
  1. Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
Description
  1. xii, 150 pages : illustrations, portraits.
Series statement
  1. Medical historySupplement, 0025-7273 ; no. 10
Uniform title
  1. Medical historySupplement ; no. 10.
Subject
  1. Geschichte 400 v. Chr.-1990
  2. Health resorts > Utilization > History
  3. Hydrotherapy > History
  4. Medicine > History
  5. Balneology > history
  6. Health Resorts > history
  7. History of Medicine
  8. history of medicine
  9. Health resorts > Utilization
  10. Hydrotherapy
  11. Medicine
  12. Balneotherapie
  13. Heilbad
  14. Kongress
  15. Baden (hygiëne)
  16. Geneeskrachtige bronnen
  17. Hydrothérapie > Histoire
  18. Stations climatiques, thermales, etc. > Histoire
Genre/Form
  1. History.
  2. Konferenzschrift – 1988 – London.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographic references and index.