Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… (Cheyne, Gout , 62-75) and there were eventually two seasons, Spring and Fall – it was part and parcel of the treatment. Entertainment was prescribed by the Bath doctors as an antidote to a well-known English malady that was caused by – or … of the imagination to the full, thanks to the varied cultural life there (Cossic, Bath, 97-113) or simply the round of entertainments. 28 This interpretation of the Bath sociable experience is corroborated by Miles Ogborn’s contention in …
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