Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… and J.H. Plumb (eds.), The Birth of a Consumer Society. The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England (London: Europe Publications, 1992), p. 9-33. 2 . See Lothar Gall, Von der ständischen zur bürgerlichen Gesellschaft (München: … Consultation of Physicians, p. 91-107. Water cures had long been a fundamental part of spa visits, and those in central Europe with renowned springs, in particular Pyrmont, owed their reputations to the belief in the quality of their waters. … most celebrated of these perhaps was the visit in 1716 by Tsar Peter I of Russia on his 1716-17 grand tour of Western Europe, but this was hardly an isolated event. This visit was followed several weeks later by King George I, who made a …
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