… 6 Taking the Bath waters In the eighteenth century, taking the waters did not simply mean bathing but it also involved drinking them (Cossic, Bath , 31-32). 7 The Pump Room, originally a rather rudimentary establishment, became the …
… and incidents of the revolution (New York: Dana and Company, Publishers, 1856), p. 350-351. 5 . See Thomas A. Chambers, Drinking the Waters: Creating a Nineteenth-Century American Leisure Class at Mineral Springs (Washington DC: Smithsonian …
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