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The Medical history of waters and spas

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

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Additional Authors

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.

Description

xii, 150 pages : illustrations, portraits.

Series Statement

Medical historySupplement, 0025-7273 ; no. 10

Uniform Title

Medical historySupplement ; no. 10.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Konferenzschrift – 1988 – London.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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.

ISBN

9780854840953
0854840958

OCLC

ocm25205690
25205690
SCSB-1917211

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Princeton University Library