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This is the story not only of water cures as practiced by Aachen, Vichy, Carlsbad, Buxton and elsewhere, but of cures by mud, gas, vapour, compressed air, electric light and much else. The author begins in the 'nature camps' and sweat grottoes of the ancient world and ends in the nature camps and sweat grottoes of today, not omiting those centres which offer such high sounding delights and thalassotherapy and psammatotherapy. He deals also with the cult of holy wells and examines the phenomena of Lourdes.
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