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… specificities as a place for soft politics. Places > Health Keywords Assemblies Fiction Health Leisure Medicine North America Spa Because of their seasonal structure, spa towns are a lens onto the modes of eighteenth-century sociability. … on British soil, the use of healing waters was not restricted to the mainland: mineral waters were also taken in early America and Jamaica. In 1784, Thomas Dancer published A Short Dissertation on the Jamaica Bath Waters in which he … St Thomas, and the interactions between natives, colons and enslaved people around the use of therapeutic waters. In America, Charlene Lewis has shown the ways in which planter sociability at Virginia Springs was inherent to the …
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