Old Travel Blog Photograph The Hydropathic Skelmorlie Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Hydropathic in Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, Scotland. In Europe, the application of water in the treatment of fevers and other maladies had, since the seventeenth century, been consistently promoted by a number of medical writers. In the eighteenth century, taking to the waters became a fashionable pastime for the wealthy classes who decamped to resorts around Britain and Europe to cure the ills of over-consumption. In the main, treatment in the heyday of the British spa consisted of sense and sociability: promenading, bathing, and the repetitive quaffing of foul tasting mineral waters.



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