{"product_id":"healing-waters-jeremy-agnew-9781476674599","title":"Healing Waters: A History of Victorian Spas","description":"\u003cp\u003e Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were sanitariums, providing \"water cure\" treatments supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity and radioactivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rooted in the palliative health reforms of the early 19th century, spas of the Victorian Age grew out of the hydrotherapy institutions of the 1840s--an alternative to the horrors of bleeding and purging. The regimen focused on diet, rest, cessation of alcohol and foods that upset the stomach, stress reduction and plenty of water. The treatments, though sometimes of a dubious nature, formed the transition from the primitive methods of \"heroic medicine\" to the era of scientifically based practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Agnew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476674590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476674599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Jeremy Agnew","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44129395376383,"sku":"9781476674599","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_216829a3-f71d-4440-8b91-907619435cbf.jpg?v=1687463668","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/healing-waters-jeremy-agnew-9781476674599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}