Spas [ Health ]
… comparable to market-towns provided with an exceptional amount of inns, doctors, and paid care providers (doctors, bath women, porters &c.). In smaller-sized spas, however, social life was less seasonal and less regulated, as regional and … in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006). 5 . On the authenticity of women’s sickness and spa treatment see Rose Alexandra McCormack, ‘’An Assembly of Disorders’: Exploring Illness as a … with the sociability of visitors, workers also developed forms of sociable encounters and networks of support: bath women, for example, who accompanied the bathers and sold sweets and lozenges in the bath, were organised as a …
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