jpoor@TCTC.COM wrote: > > > I live in Royal Leamington > Spa and outside the Pump Rooms is a fountain where > there is a constant supply of the medicinal waters > that Queen Victoria used to bathe in. Salty! and > now generally thought to have no good effect on > the body whatever.... > > I don't know about that, Tom. We have an area here that is known as > Mudlavia. In yester-year people came from far away just to take mud > baths. Supposedly the farmer that owned this bog was crippled with > arthritis, but when he was out working in the boggy areas his -----------------snip-------------------- Here in California, mud baths and hot springs are still going strong. Throughout the western United States, there is lots of evidence that these underground resources were used by native people from the time the area first became inhabited. I wonder how much of the curative or restorative powers came from the heat??????? By the way, my great-grandparents took their honeymoon at Napa Soda Springs (in California's Napa Valley) in about 1859 or thereabouts. This was a fashionable spa already in business less than 10 years after the Gold Rush of 1849 opened up California to Anglo and other immigration. The Native Americans, then the Spanish, then the Mexicans had all used this natural tonic, and now the newcomers took over. Fran Middleton
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