Healing Waters
A History of Victorian Spas
Edición de la obra Healing Waters
| Autor | Jeremy Agnew |
|---|---|
| Editorial | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 240 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781476674599 |
| OCLC | 1084628331 |
| LCCN | 2019004318 |
| Número de Cutter | A273h |
"The modern meaning of the term "spa" describes health resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages, and therapies. The Victorian spa was a sanitarium that provided medical treatments based on the use of water, supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity, and radioactivity. The Victorian spa was to provide gentler alternative treatments that emphasized the healing power of nature"--