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1. RG2.B2.F16 - Excerpts

   This photocopy from Lady Luxborough Goes to Bath describes taking the waters at Bath in England in 1752.. Lady Luxborough suffered and was ill so consequently visited the spa. The bathing costume is described as is the Pump Room with its musical intertainment. Rules for Bath are listed. The Yellow Springs Spa in America can be said to follow this form without the formality of the English spa.

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2. RG2.B2.F9 - Excerpts

   The book, English Spas, attempts to tell the story of spas from the social history rather than the typical medicinal side. It is meant to study and re-create the life of the most brilliant period of spas which began with the Restoration and ended with the Regency. From the pagan rites with water to the holy wells, to the 18th century spa life, the baths played an important part of the English life. There were amenities and proprieties along wi...

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