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… 3 1 . See Peter Borsay, The image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: towns, heritage, and history (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 200, pp. 30-32. 2 . Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860. University of Virginia Press, 2001; Vaughn Scribner, ‘‘The Happy Effects of These Waters’: Colonial American Mineral Spas and the British … Vasset, Murky waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022). Social spaces for the sick The pump-room, a central feature of spa towns, was built around the pump which …
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