Healing Waters e-bog
253,01 DKK
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Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were sanitariums, providing "e;water cure"e; treatments supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity and radioactivity. Rooted in the palliative health reforms of the early 19th century, spas of the Victorian Age grew out of the hydrotherapy institutions of the 184...
E-bog
253,01 DKK
Forlag
McFarland
Udgivet
11 marts 2019
Længde
248 sider
Genrer
General and world history
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781476636177
Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were sanitariums, providing "e;water cure"e; treatments supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity and radioactivity. Rooted in the palliative health reforms of the early 19th century, spas of the Victorian Age grew out of the hydrotherapy institutions of the 1840s--an alternative to the horrors of bleeding and purging. The regimen focused on diet, rest, cessation of alcohol and foods that upset the stomach, stress reduction and plenty of water. The treatments, though sometimes of a dubious nature, formed the transition from the primitive methods of "e;heroic medicine"e; to the era of scientifically based practices.