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… the spa’s primary meeting space was marked by health and sickness and spa towns were, as Annick Cossic writes, ‘invalid-friendly’. 4 Many visitors were sick, and taking the waters was considered a respectable and potentially … General Infirmary in Bath, which entailed further regulations to control the comings and goings of the poorer sort of invalids. 6 4 . Annick Cossic, ‘The Female Invalid and Spa Therapy in Some Well-Known 18th-Century Medical and Literary Texts: From John Floyer’s The Ancient …
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