Books: Diseased, Douched & Doctored. Thermal Springs, Spa Doctors and Rheumatic Diseases: >In the Waters

摘要

After thriving since Roman times, ‘In recent years the medical profession has largely forsaken its interest in spas.’. Roger Rolls has given us a detailed, well-illustrated history of Bath, our best-known spa. On reading of the ebb and flow of novel ideas about how the waters might be therapeutic, it is natural to question why was belief in their powers maintained for so long?