Elazığ Kolan Spas Hot Spring Waters
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"Taking the waters"--springs, wells, and spas.
[O]ne of the deepest and most enduring preoccupations, both of the sick and of the medical profession, from the baths of antiquity through to the Victorian deluge of “hydros,” has been water. . . . the pernicious potential of standing waters, humid vapors, excessive rainfall, pestilential miasmatic fogs, and subterranean aqueous abysses . . . the curative powers of water . . . engendering feroc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Turkish Studies
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1308-2140
DOI: 10.7827/turkishstudies.963