1 option
Water-cure for ladies : a popular work on the health, diet, and regimen of females and children, and the prevention and cure of diseases : with a full account of the processes of water-cure, illustrated with various cases / by Mrs M. L. Shew ; revised by Joel Shew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shew, M. L., Mrs., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hydrotherapy.
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (xii, 156 pages)) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : John Wiley, 1849.
- Notes:
- A thoroughgoing water cure required spas, of which the first in America was run by the Shew family in New York. Women's ailments seemed to respond well to water cure and the spas also offered women a vacation from their families, female friendship and physical pleasure. A fifth of professional hydropaths were women.
- Collection reference: 69316.D
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.