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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Healing Waters: A History of Victorian Spas

Healing Waters: A History of Victorian Spas

Agnew, Jeremy

Paperback

Health GeneralTravel GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1476674590
ISBN13: 9781476674599
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: May 7 2019
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were sanitariums, providing water cure 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 heroic medicine to the era of scientifically based practices.

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