Mineral springs and health resorts of California c. 2
Author : Winslow Anderson
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Winslow Anderson
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Winslow Anderson
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Mineral Springs Hotel and Health Resort (Suspension Bridge, N.Y.)
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Health resorts
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Author : Loring Bullard
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0826264182
Missouri's mineral springs and resorts played a vital role in the social and economic development of the state. In Healing Waters, Loring Bullard delves into the long history of these springs and spas, concentrating particularly on the use and development of the mineral springs from 1800 to about the 1930s. During this period, there were at least eighty sites in the state that could be described as resorts. Because so many people were drawn to the springs by their faith in the healing virtues of the springwater, towns were frequently founded at the mineral springs. These places fought hard to capture the attention of Missourians who were seeking better health, relaxation, or good times in the late 1800s and early 1900s.Bullard first examines the development of mineral water resorts in Europe from ancient times, early spa traditions in America, and Missouri's frontier spas. He then discusses the establishment of saltworks at the state's saline springs and the importance of the early salt trade; the brisk business that grew around the bottling of mineral waters; the use and development of mineralized groundwater resources; the geologic and biologic factors that create Missouri's mineral waters; and public and professional belief in the curative values of mineral waters.Healing Waters also traces the demise of Missouri's mineral water resorts and towns. Well into the twentieth century, when modern medicine had seemingly taken hold, many physicians and scientists continued to proclaim the medicinal virtues of mineral waters. However, by the second quarter of the twentieth century, medical science and popular opinion had discounted the immediate medical usefulness of mineral waters. As advances were made in microbiology and biochemistry, and with the inherent promise of drug cures, orthodox medicine began to turn a cold shoulder on mineral water treatments. Spa treatments, with their long regimens, also did not fit well with the increasingly fast-paced lifestyles of the public. By visiting the sites, gathering local historical accounts, interviewing local citizens, and photographing remaining artifacts, Bullard has done a masterful job in providing the answers to why these vibrant social centers came to be and why they faded.
Author : Thomas Linn
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Health resorts
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Author : John K. Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134920105
Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday. During their heyday the leading spa resorts became hotbeds of political and diplomatic intrigue, and gathering-points for high society. As such, they also became important businesses, and distinctive, carefully-managed urban environments. ‘Taking the waters’ at a mineral springs resort fell into eclipse over much of the Western world in the mid-twentieth century, only to revive in more diffuse guise as ‘health and wellness tourism’ in the new millennium. This book examines an important body of practices and experiences from the perspectives of health, pleasure, conspicuous consumption and display, urban governance, culture and politics across a quarter of a millennium, drawing its examples not only from the British Isles, France, Spain and Central Europe, but also from the United States and Australia. An international team of distinguished historians puts this neglected theme back on the historical map, at a time when spas and their treatments have never been so popular and visible in contemporary society. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Tourism History.
Author : Tuscan Mineral Springs (Red Bluff, Calif.)
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Health resorts
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 1900*
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Author : Winslow Anderson
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1890
Category : California
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Survey of mineral health springs and their use. Listing of springs in California and in prominent other places in the United States and in Europe. Brief history of early California and Franciscan missions.
Author : Isaac Burney Yeo
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Climatology
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