Author: Peter ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An Enquiry Into the Contents, Virtues, and Uses, of the Scarborough Spaw-waters
Author: Peter ShawThe Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Andrew CunninghamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521382359
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
The Edge of the World
Author: Michael PyePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1605987530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North Sea in the so-called “dark ages,” the years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Europe’s mastery over the oceans. Now the critically acclaimed Michael Pye reveals the cultural transformation sparked by those men and women: the ideas, technology, science, law, and moral codes that helped create our modern world. This is the magnificent lost history of a thousand years. It was on the shores of the North Sea where experimental science was born, where women first had the right to choose whom they married; there was the beginning of contemporary business transactions and the advent of the printed book. In The Edge of the World, Michael Pye draws on an astounding breadth of original source material to illuminate this fascinating region during a pivotal era in world history.
Anecdotes of British Topography
Author: Richard GoughPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108064469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 823
Book Description
This 1768 work provides a thorough guide to the sources available for the study of British and Irish antiquities.
Healing with water
Author: Jane M. AdamsPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719098068
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Healing with water provides a medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It argues that demand for healing rather than leisure drove the growth of a number of inland resorts which became renowned for expertise and treatment facilities. These aspects were actively marketed to doctors and patients. It assesses the influence of these centres on broader patterns of resort development, leisure and sociability in Britain. The study explores ideas about water’s healing potential and the varied ways it was used to maintain good health and treat a variety of illnesses. Water cures were endorsed by both orthodox and unorthodox practitioners and attracted growing numbers of patients into the twentieth century. It examines how institutions and skilled workers shaped the development of specialist resorts and considers why the NHS support for spa treatment declined from the 1960s.
Murky waters
Author: Sophie VassetPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526159708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of 'murkiness', it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the gender fluidity of users to the local and national political dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a pinch of salt to health-related discourses.
The Medical History of Waters and Spas
Author: Roy PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Medical History
Author: University of Washington Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Brighton, Old Ocean's Bauble
Author: Edmund William GilbertPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description