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The Medical History of Waters and Spas.

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1990 · London:

by PORTER, Roy (1956-2002) [ed.].
London:: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1990., 1990. 8vo. xii, 150 pp. figs., plates, index. Blue printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0854840958 First edition. Contents include: "Waters and Spas in the classical world" by Ralph Jackson, "The Development of the spa in seventeenth-century France" by L. W. B. Brockliss, "Chemistry, medicine, and the legitimization of English spas, 1740-1840" by Christopher Hamlin, "A trial of the Bath waters: the treatment of lead poisoning" by Audrey Heywood, "Spas and sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern" by Janet Browne, etc. (Inventory #: SEG1330)
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