… 6 Taking the Bath waters In the eighteenth century, taking the waters did not simply mean bathing but it also involved drinking them (Cossic, Bath , 31-32). 7 The Pump Room, originally a rather rudimentary establishment, became the …
… the middle and upper class. In parallel, the regular complaints of doctors on the poor commoners and their unmonitored drinking in excess, entailing dangerous purges, shows the diversity of visitors who came to take the waters. Some wells …
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… and incidents of the revolution (New York: Dana and Company, Publishers, 1856), p. 350-351. 5 . See Thomas A. Chambers, Drinking the Waters: Creating a Nineteenth-Century American Leisure Class at Mineral Springs (Washington DC: Smithsonian …
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