"Taking the waters"—springs, wells, and spas William A. Frosch 1 Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA 1 Correspondence: Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68th St., New York, NY 10021, USA. E-mail: wafrosc@med.cornell.edu [ O]ne of the deepest and most enduring preoccupations, both of the sick and of the medical profession, from the baths of antiquity through to the Victorian deluge of "hydros," has been water. ... the pernicious potential of standing waters, humid vapors, excessive rainfall, pestilential miasmatic fogs, and subterranean aqueous abysses ... the curative powers of water ... engendering ferocious local disputes as to the desirable mineral constituents of particular healing springs, wells, streams, and spas ... (1) WE ARE ALL DEPENDENT on a continuing supply of fresh water from the day we are born, when the "water breaks," to the day of our death, when we cross the river Styx. Water, whether drawn from a stone by Moses, or spurting from the earth in the Fountain of Youth, has been celebrated from time immemorial for its capacity to clean our physical and moral selves—think of Noah’s ark in the cleansing flood and the rite of
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"Taking the waters"springs, wells, and spas
Frosch, William A.
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, Volume 21 (9): 1948
Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Jul 1, 2007
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