Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… alongside medical advice. Central for both their sociable and salubrious properties were the pump room, with its rituals of drinking water and making small talk (including about illness, politely), as well as the promenade and … Rooms , the Pleasure Gardens , the coffee-houses , put a new burden on the newcomers, that of conforming to a specific ritual with its own set of laws. They were thus forced to swap a previous code of behaviour – chivalric for the members …
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