Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments,
massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were
sanitariums, providing "water cure" treatments supplemented by
massage, vibration, electricity and radioactivity. Rooted in the
palliative health reforms of the early 19th century, spas of the
Victorian Age grew out of the hydrotherapy institutions of the
1840s-an alternative to the horrors of bleeding and purging. The
regimen focused on diet, rest, cessation of alcohol and foods that
upset the stomach, stress reduction and plenty of water. The
treatments, though sometimes of a dubious nature, formed the
transition from the primitive methods of "heroic medicine" to the
era of scientifically based practices.
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