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The health seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900 / by John E. Baur ; introduction to the second edition by Robert G. Frank Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baur, John E.
- Series:
- Huntington classics
- Huntington Library classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health resorts--California, Southern--History--19th century.
- Health resorts.
- Climatology.
- History.
- California, Southern--Climate.
- California, Southern.
- Health Resorts--history.
- California.
- Southern California.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Resorts--history.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- xliii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Marino, Calif. : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, [2010]
- Contents:
- Building a health legend
- Advertising the resorts
- Los Angeles, capital of the "Sanitarium Belt"
- Town building
- Medicine and pseudo-medicine
- Faith and charity
- Mineral waters
- Prescription : agriculture
- Those who came
- The role of government
- Climax and anticlimax.
- Notes:
- Originally published: San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, c1959.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780873282253
- 0873282256
- OCLC:
- 232647332
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