Title Healing with water : English spas and the water cure, 1840-1960 / Jane M. Adams.

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Description	1 online resource : illustrations
	data file
Physical Medium	polychrome
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The theory and practice of the water cure -- The development and marketing of specialist water cure resorts -- Specialisation at the water cure : institutions and skilled workers -- Water cure, regimen and healthy living -- Water, health and leisure -- National assets and national interests : spas and the state.
Summary	'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.
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Subject	Health resorts -- England -- History.
	Health resorts.
	England.
	History.
	Mineral waters -- Therapeutic use.
	Mineral waters -- Therapeutic use.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Adams, Jane M. Healing with water. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015 9780719095696 (DLC) 2015431032 (OCoLC)899702645
ISBN	9780719098079 (electronic book)
	0719098076 (electronic book)
	9781781708439
	1781708436
	9780719095696
	0719095697