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Mineral and Thermal Groundwater Resources (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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Mineral and Thermal Groundwater Resources (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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Is it not generally believed that our town is a healthy place . . .
a place highly com mended on this score both for the sick andfor
the healthy? . . And then these Baths - the so-called 'artery' of
the town, or the 'nerve centre' . . . Do you know what they are in
reality, these great and splendid and glorious Baths that have cost
so much money? . . A most serious danger to health! All that filth
up in Melledal, where there's such an awful stench - it's all
seeping into the pipes that lead to the pump-room! Henrik Ibsen, An
Enemy of the People, 1882 Henrik Ibsen gave the 'truth about
mineral water' more than 100 years ago in An Enemy of the People.
His examples came not from the decadent bathing spas of Bohemia or
Victorian Britain, but from the very edge of polite society,
subarctic Norway! His masterpiece illustrates the central role that
groundwaters and, in particular, mineral waters have played in the
history of humanity: their economic importance for towns, their
magnetism for pilgrims searching for cures, the political
intrigues, the arguments over purported beneficent or maleficent
health effects and, finally, their contami nation by anthropogenic
activity, in Ibsen's case by wastes from a tannery. This book
addresses the occurrence, properties and uses of mineral and
thermal groundwaters. The use of these resources for heating,
personal hygiene, curative and recreational purposes is deeply
integrated in the history of civilization.
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