Author: [MINERAL SPRINGS – FRANCE].
Title: [30 scientific and promotional publications on mineral springs in France].France, 1870-1888. 30 works in 1 volume. 8vo. One work with 5 leaves with wood engraved illustrations and some others with an illustration on the title-page. Contemporary red half sheepskin, with gold fillets and title-label on spine, and the original wrappers of each work bound in.
Description: A collection of scientific and promotional publications on mineral springs in France from the end of the 19th-century. The therapeutic virtues of hydrotherapy have been known since antiquity, but the practice became less prevalent at the end of the 18th-century, until Priessnitz (1799-1851) revived it Germany. Because of the law against lay practice in France, the revival there was delayed. "Physicians of scientific attainment [then] entered upon the investigation of hydrotherapy in France with zeal, while in Germany the natural prejudice entertained by the medical profession against the empiricism of Priessnitz and his followers for a long time prevented educated physicians from attaching themselves to water establishments" (Baruch). The collection includes articles by Pidoux, Guyenot, Durand-Fardel, Joubert, Binet, Breuillard, Bouloumié and others.One article (no. 21) has a stamp of "Pharmacie Gaffard, R. Destrez succr. Versailles". In very good condition.List of contents available on requestl S. Baruch, The principles and practice of hydrotherapy (1900), pp. 477-478.

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