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The Museum collection includes a number of records and text books relating to spa water treatments and physiotherapy.

You can view these documents by appointment.

One of our local guide books.

Books and Documents in the Art Gallery & Museum's Archive

Anon (‘A Veteran’), Hints to The Sick, The Lame, and the Lazy or Passages in the Life of a Hydropathist, (London: John Ollivier, 1848?)

Baruch, Simon, The Principles and Practice of Hydrotherapy, (London: Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1900)

British Medical Association, The Spa in Medical Practice: A Report of a Committee of the British Medical Association, (1951)

British Medical Association, The Spa in Medical Practice: A Report of a Committee of the British Medical Association, revised edn (1964).

Hall, Percy, M.C.R.S., Ultra-Violet Rays in the Treatment and Cure of Disease, (London: William Heinemann (Medical Books) Ltd., 1924)

Morris, Hugh, Medical Electricity for Massage Students, (London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd., 1934)

Schliephake, E., Short-Wave Therapy 2^nd edn, (London: The Actinic Press, 1938).

Smith, F.W., M.D., The Leamington Waters (London: H.K. Lewis, 1884)

General Reference Works

Aaland, Mikkel, Sweat (California: Santa Barbara, 1978)

Barrucand, M and Achim Bednorz, Moorish Architecture in Andalucia (Köln: Taschen, 1992)

British Spas Federation, The Spas of Great Britain: The Official Handbook of the Spas Federation, (n.d. c.1930?)

Croutier, Alev Lytle, Taking The Waters: Spirit, Art, Sensuality (New York: Abbeville Pres, 1992)

Denbigh, K, A Hundred British Spas (London: Spa Publications, 1981).

Eveleigh, David J., Bogs, Baths and Basins: The Story of Domestic Sanitation (Stroud: Sutton, 2002)

Gibbons, W.J., The Royal Baths and Pump Rooms at Royal Leamington Spa (1980).

Gibbons, W.J., The Royal Baths and Pump Room at Royal Leamington Spa, 2^nd edn. (Jones-Sands Publishing, 1999).

Harrogate Medical Society, Spa Treatment, (c. 1929)

Hembry, Phyllis, British Spas from 1815 to the Present: A Social History (London: Athlone Press, 1997)

HMSO, General Register for Factories, (1979)

Lawrence, Ghislaine, Medicine: Examining the Past (London: Science Museum, 2002)

Lawrence, Ghislaine, and Boon, Tim, Health Matters: Modern Medicine and the Search for Better Health (London: Science Museum, 1994).

Luke, T.D., Spas and Health Resorts of the British Isles, (London, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1919).

Maycroft, Pat, Northern Grit, (Co. Durham; Vane Women Press, 2002).

Porter, Roy, (ed.), The Medical History of Waters and Spas, Medical History Supplement No. 10 (London: Wellcome Institute, 1990)

Schweitzer, Pam and Alex Can We Afford the Doctor?: Memories of Health Care, (London: Age Exchange, 1985)

Thomson, William A.R., Spas That Heal, (London, Adam and Charles Black, 1978)

van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P., The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press, 1998)

Leamington and District Guides

England’s Historic Heartland: What To See 1988 (Amenities Department, Warwick District Council, 1988).

Gibbs, John, Notes on Leamington (Leamington, 1873)

Heywood, Abel, Penny Guide to Royal Leamington Spa, (Manchester, c. 1865)

Leamington Spa Corporation, Royal Leamington Spa, (n.d. c. 1933?)

Leamington Spa Corporation, Royal Leamington Spa, (n.d. c. 1932)

Leamington Town Council, Royal Leamington Spa: The Official Guide (c. 1910s?)

Royal Leamington Spa: Tourist Centre of England (Spa Committee of Borough of Leamington Spa, c.1968)

Royal Leamington Spa: The Gateway to Shakespeare-land (Leamington Spa Corporation Publicity Department, c.1946?).

Royal Leamington Spa: The Gateway to Shakespeare-land (Leamington Spa Corporation Publicity Department, later version than previous?).

Warwick District: England’s Historic Heartland (Amenities Department, Warwick District Council, c.1976).

Warwick District: Official Guide (Amenities Department, Warwick District Council, c.1976).

Watkin, J, (ed.), The Royal Pump Rooms and the Growth of Leamington Spa, (Warwick District Council, March 2002).

Coveney, Christine, The Importance of Hydrotherapy in Nineteenth Century Medicine with Particular Reference to Leamington Spa’, (Dissertation, 1990)

Cunliffe, Barry The Roman Baths at Bath (Bath Archaeological Trust, 1993)

The Royal Pump Room Museum (Harrogate Museums and Art Gallery service, 1993).

Leamington Public Library also has many general books on spa waters, as well as files on individuals associated with the Pump Rooms and records from the 1980s and 1990s regarding the various plans for redevelopment.

Warwickshire County Record Office holds many originals and copies of family and personal papers of Dr Henry Jephson and his family, and ‘Leamington Peripatetics’ : contemporary verses on Jephson’s regimes. The Record Office also holds the original plans for the Pump Rooms and Well in Leamington, as well as various archives relating to spa waters in general.

The Pump Rooms has full lists, copies and transcripts of relevant archives in the County Record Office.

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