Popular guide to the use of the Bath waters. With hints on climate, lodgings, hotels, etc.; full instructions for bathing and drinking the waters; with special chapters on the new massage douche baths; thermal vapour treatment; and massage in its relation to balneology / by J. G. Douglas Kerr.

  • Kerr, John George Douglas.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Popular guide to the use of the Bath waters. With hints on climate, lodgings, hotels, etc.; full instructions for bathing and drinking the waters; with special chapters on the new massage douche baths; thermal vapour treatment; and massage in its relation to balneology / by J. G. Douglas Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Mineral Water Hospital. recovered, and who may find it necessary to continue the use of the water for drinking purposes at their own homes, a course which from personal experience I can thoroughly recommend. It is impossible to pass from a description of the bathing establishments without mention of that noble charity, the Muieral Water Hospital. Opened in 1742, it has afforded incalculable relief to something like 5 5,COO sick poor. It is a national charity, receiving patients from all parts of the country, the only recommendation necessary being that they are poor and suffering, and are fit cases for the water treatment. As altered and extended in 1861, it affords accom- modation for 144 patients—85 males and 59 females. Full particulars as to admission, &c., may be had on application to the Resident Medical Officer.