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Healing waters : a history of Victorian spas /
"The modern meaning of the term "spa" describes health resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages, and therapies. The Victorian spa was a sanitarium that provided medical treatments based on the use of water, supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity, and radioactivity. The...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2019]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Significant Dates in the Evolution of the Victorian Spa; One. Healing Waters; Two. Heroic Medicine Indeed; Three. Towards Gentler Treatments; Four. The Quest for Healthy Eating; Five. Water as the Universal Cure; Six. The Water Cure Comes to America; Seven. Elusive Victorian Diseases; Eight. Taking the Plunge; Nine. Bathing the Insides; Ten. Shocking Treatments; Eleven. Treatments Galore; Twelve. Victorian Watering Places; Thirteen. Springs and Spas in America; Fourteen. The Battle Creek San; Fifteen. The Cereal Battles; Sixteen. The Spas Transform
- PostscriptGlossary: Victorian Medical Terminology; Appendix: Composition of Representative Mineral Springs; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index