History Coursework: - Southend.
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History coursework: - Southend. Charlie Mason 11MN 14-Sep-01 Throughout the 1700's holiday resorts grew in popularity, Tunbridge wells, Harrogate, Bath and Scarborough were all popular spas all with there own assembly rooms, band, pump rooms, circulating library and theatre. This was the first time in Britain health spas were opening. In 1749, Dr. Richard Russell published his discoveries that drinking and bathing in seawater could improve your health, his book was called 'A dissertation on the use of seawater in the diseases of the glands', Dr. Richards theories were proven correct when one of his patients drank twenty five gallons of seawater, by drinking one pint every morning. This cured his patients tumor, who got to live a happy normal live. The success of Dr. Richards's patient led to many middle class people to head to the sea area to bathe and drink the seawater. In 1783 George, Prince of Wales had...


