Abstract
Bathing in thermal water has an impressive history and continuing popularity. In this paper a brief overview of the use of water in medicine over the centuries is given.
MeSH terms
- Arthritis / history
- Arthritis / therapy
- Balneology / history*
- Europe
- Health Resorts / history
- History, 17th Century
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- History, Ancient
- History, Medieval
- Humans
- Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / history
- United States