Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… linked health with entertainment: exchanging news, gossiping and discussing one’s ailments were the staple diet of invalids and those who accompanied them. Works of fiction, letters and diaries show that illness had a new visibility and … Bath waters. Towards the end of the century, Dr Makittrick Adair’s essay, Medical Cautions. For the Consideration of Invalids: Especially Those Who Resort to Bath (1786), formally underlined the link between fashion and illness. Yet the … of Ceremonies As shown in the entries on Bath and Beau Nash, the visit to the spa was part of a quest for happiness: invalids and those that accompanied them sought an improvement in their physical condition and psychological pleasure. …
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