Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… sanitary matters was fiercely resisted, as illustrated by the sulphur controversy 4 or by the hostility to Smollett’s Essay on the External Use of Water (1752). 5 3 . For instance, Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide, ed. Annick Cossic … au XVIIIe siècle. Les fastes d’une cité palladienne (Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2000), p. 41. 5 . An Essay on the External Use of Water (London: M. Cooper, 1752), p. 22. The sociological side of an open society meant more … a dialogue with the public. A very good illustration of this trend is provided by George Cheyne, who wrote an Essay of the True Nature and Due Method of Treating the Gout (1720) in which he enumerated the components of the Bath …
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