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Health in Earth's Mineral Waters
Select Recommended Reading List of Balneology Publications
North America
American Healing Waters: A Chronology ( 1513-1946) and Historical Survey of America's Major Springs, Spas & and Health Resorts including a Review of their Medicinal Virtues, Therapeutic Methods & Health Care Practices. by Dr. J.Paul De Vierville, 1992
"Beautiful Spas & Hot Springs on California" by Stanley Young , 1998
“Crazy Water: the Story of Mineral Wells & Other Texas Health Resorts” by Gene Fowler, 1991
Healing Springs: the Ultimate Guide to Taking the Waters, by Nathaniel Altman, 2000
“Healing Waters: Missouri’s Historic Mineral Springs & Spas” by Loring Bullard, 2004
"Healing With Water", by Jeanne Keller, Parker Publishing Co., West Nyack, NY, 1968
“History of American Spas & Hydrology” in S. Licht, ed. Medical Hydrology, 1963
"The History of the Greenbrier : Americas Resort" by Robert S. Conte, Published by the Greenbrier, 1989.
"Historic Springs of the Virginas: A Pictorial History," by Stan Cohen, Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Charleston, WV, 1994
"Hot Springs of Western Canada" by Glenn Woodsworth (including some in WA and AK), Gordon Soules Book Publishers, Vancourver, Canada, Seattle, WA, 1997
Medical History of Waters & Spas, by Roy Porter, ed. 1990
“Saratoga: Queen of Spas” by Grace Swanner, 1998
“Taking the Waters in Texas: Springs, Spas & Fountains of Youth” by Janet Mace Valenza, 2000
"The Best Spas" by Theodore B. Van Itallie and Leila Hadley, Harper and Row Publishers, 1988.
"The Ultimate Spa Book" by Pam Martin Sarnoff", Warner Books, NY, 1989.
International
"A Guide to Japanese Hot Springs" by Anne Hotta and Yoko Ishiguro, Kodansha International, Tokyo, NY, London
"My Water-Cure" by Sebastian Kneipp, Jos. Koesel, Publisher, Kempten, Bavaria, 1886
"Stories From A Heated Earth: Our Geothermal Heritage" by Raffaele Calaldi, Susan F. Hodgson, John W. Lund, Geothermal Resource Council, Davis, California, 1999
“Taking the Waters : Early Spas in New Zealand" by Ian Rockel, Government Printing Office, Wellington, NZ, 1986
Articles
There are thousands of research articles on Balneotherapy and we can recommend two search routes:
Google Scholars & Worldcat.org
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Balneotherapy&qt=results_page
http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Medical+Hydrology)
Geo –Heat Center’s Quarterly Bulletin
http://geoheat.oit.edu/ghcindex.htm#resort
This site has a comprehensive selection of scholarly articles on Balneotherap on North America & around the world.
16th Century Balneotherapy Manuscript
De balneis omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas ... in quo aquarum ac thermarum omnium, quae in toto ferè orbe terrarum sunt, metallorum item, & reliquorum mineralium nature, vires atque usus exquisitisime explicantur. GIUNTA, Tomaso (Editor).
Book Description: Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1553. Folio. 14 + 497 ff. Roman & italic letters with some Greek.
The most complete collection of early texts on balneology charting the history of the subject and containing precise descriptions of over 200 spas.
Some 70 authors are cited ranging from classical antiquity (Aristotle, Avicenna, Hippocrates, Galen) to the Renaissance (Giralomo Cardano, Michael Savonarola, Conrad Gesner, Leonhardt Fuchs, Joachim Camerarius). Gesner's work on German and Swiss thermal springs is here first published.
Balneo-therapy was a fashionable means of treating medical conditions, and there existed in Germany alone some 70 health spas.
The striking full-page woodcuts include a plan of a natural bath at Pozzuoli, a representation of a waterwheel-driven pump used to raise water at the baths of Fideris in the Prätigau Valley of eastern Switzerland, and a fine view of the spa of Plombières-les-Bains in the Vosges, complete with tiny figures, some on crutches, bathing and taking the waters.
Health in Earth's Mineral Waters
Select Recommended Reading List of Balneology Publications
North America
American Healing Waters: A Chronology ( 1513-1946) and Historical Survey of America's Major Springs, Spas & and Health Resorts including a Review of their Medicinal Virtues, Therapeutic Methods & Health Care Practices. by Dr. J.Paul De Vierville, 1992
"Beautiful Spas & Hot Springs on California" by Stanley Young , 1998
“Crazy Water: the Story of Mineral Wells & Other Texas Health Resorts” by Gene Fowler, 1991
Healing Springs: the Ultimate Guide to Taking the Waters, by Nathaniel Altman, 2000
“Healing Waters: Missouri’s Historic Mineral Springs & Spas” by Loring Bullard, 2004
"Healing With Water", by Jeanne Keller, Parker Publishing Co., West Nyack, NY, 1968
“History of American Spas & Hydrology” in S. Licht, ed. Medical Hydrology, 1963
"The History of the Greenbrier : Americas Resort" by Robert S. Conte, Published by the Greenbrier, 1989.
"Historic Springs of the Virginas: A Pictorial History," by Stan Cohen, Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Charleston, WV, 1994
"Hot Springs of Western Canada" by Glenn Woodsworth (including some in WA and AK), Gordon Soules Book Publishers, Vancourver, Canada, Seattle, WA, 1997
Medical History of Waters & Spas, by Roy Porter, ed. 1990
“Saratoga: Queen of Spas” by Grace Swanner, 1998
“Taking the Waters in Texas: Springs, Spas & Fountains of Youth” by Janet Mace Valenza, 2000
"The Best Spas" by Theodore B. Van Itallie and Leila Hadley, Harper and Row Publishers, 1988.
"The Ultimate Spa Book" by Pam Martin Sarnoff", Warner Books, NY, 1989.
International
"A Guide to Japanese Hot Springs" by Anne Hotta and Yoko Ishiguro, Kodansha International, Tokyo, NY, London
"My Water-Cure" by Sebastian Kneipp, Jos. Koesel, Publisher, Kempten, Bavaria, 1886
"Stories From A Heated Earth: Our Geothermal Heritage" by Raffaele Calaldi, Susan F. Hodgson, John W. Lund, Geothermal Resource Council, Davis, California, 1999
“Taking the Waters : Early Spas in New Zealand" by Ian Rockel, Government Printing Office, Wellington, NZ, 1986
Articles
There are thousands of research articles on Balneotherapy and we can recommend two search routes:
Google Scholars & Worldcat.org
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Balneotherapy&qt=results_page
http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Medical+Hydrology)
Geo –Heat Center’s Quarterly Bulletin
http://geoheat.oit.edu/ghcindex.htm#resort
This site has a comprehensive selection of scholarly articles on Balneotherap on North America & around the world.
16th Century Balneotherapy Manuscript
De balneis omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas ... in quo aquarum ac thermarum omnium, quae in toto ferè orbe terrarum sunt, metallorum item, & reliquorum mineralium nature, vires atque usus exquisitisime explicantur. GIUNTA, Tomaso (Editor).
Book Description: Venice, heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1553. Folio. 14 + 497 ff. Roman & italic letters with some Greek.
The most complete collection of early texts on balneology charting the history of the subject and containing precise descriptions of over 200 spas.
Some 70 authors are cited ranging from classical antiquity (Aristotle, Avicenna, Hippocrates, Galen) to the Renaissance (Giralomo Cardano, Michael Savonarola, Conrad Gesner, Leonhardt Fuchs, Joachim Camerarius). Gesner's work on German and Swiss thermal springs is here first published.
Balneo-therapy was a fashionable means of treating medical conditions, and there existed in Germany alone some 70 health spas.
The striking full-page woodcuts include a plan of a natural bath at Pozzuoli, a representation of a waterwheel-driven pump used to raise water at the baths of Fideris in the Prätigau Valley of eastern Switzerland, and a fine view of the spa of Plombières-les-Bains in the Vosges, complete with tiny figures, some on crutches, bathing and taking the waters.