Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… Pyrmont, vol. 1 (Leipzig: Weidmann, 1784), p. 362-63. Image William Hoare, ‘Dr Oliver and Mr Pierce examining patients with paralysis, rheumatism and leprosy’, 1761, WikiCommons. Image atirical print of the Bath Corporation: Anonymous, ‘The … to innovate at an early stage through the nature of the cure. Taking the waters was no longer principally associated with bathing, but it also involved drinking them, as recommended by Dr John Jones in The Bathes of Bathes Ayde (1572) … in A Practical Dissertation on the Bath Waters (1707). Hence the role of the Pump Room as a prime site of sociability with its social activities that closely linked health with entertainment: exchanging news, gossiping and discussing one’s …
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