Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… and discussing one’s ailments were the staple diet of invalids and those who accompanied them. Works of fiction, letters and diaries show that illness had a new visibility and was no longer stigmatized. 3 Yet if health could bring … (1752). 5 3 . For instance, Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide, ed. Annick Cossic (Bern, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010), letter XII, l. 81-82, p. 146. Also, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker [1771] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. … ed. J. L. Clifford & P-G. Boucé (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 373. 8 . See Anstey, The New Bath Guide, letter IV, A Consultation of Physicians, p. 91-107. Water cures had long been a fundamental part of spa visits, and those …
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