Book Review

摘要

It’s easy to lampoon the spas and their claims that drinking the waters or following the bathing ritual improved health. They were frequently the butt of literary and visual satire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century when many were at their height. Doctor, patient and novelist Tobias Smollett (1721–71) has a field day in the (1771), which author Roger Rolls quotes to good effect in . This nicely produced book is a reworking and updating of his earlier and out-of-print (1988).