Water, Water
Asa Briggs, 9 November 1989
The Conquest of Water: The Advent of Health in the Industrial Age
by Jean-Pierre Goubert.
Polity, 300 pp., £25, April 1989,0 7456 0508 7 Show More
by Jean-Pierre Goubert.
Polity, 300 pp., £25, April 1989,
“... carefully kept locked away at the hotel or pension desk. A few of these subjects are mentioned in Goubert’s work, which, for example, traces the bidet back to the times of Francis I and through the château and the brothel before it was transferred to the home. Yet the author has surprisingly little to say about spas or eaux minérales. He is ... ”
