’will interest anyone with a passion for medical history, tourism or social history.’ - Scotland Magazine
'The book aims to be 'both accessible and academic', and it suceeds.' - John Burnett, Review of Scottish Culture
‘Taking the waters’ is a long established form of cure throughout Europe. But in the early 1840s a new system of water treatment, called hydropathy , which involved baths, showers and sheets, arrived in Britain, and nowhere did it take stronger root than in Scotland. The appeal of its curative regime to middle class society was enhanced by firm emphasis on temperance, and the hydros became the place for respectable holidays.
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