Molyneux's Question: Vision, Touch and the Philosophy of Perception

Book Reviews hydropathics', 'The rationale of spas', and 'Spas today and tomorrow'.Although many quotations are included, there is no documentation, other than occasionally in the text.Despite the voluminous literature on spas, there is not yet available a scholarly and comprehensive work that places the spa in its historical perspective, taking into account the inextricably woven medical, social, economic, political, and religious aspects that form its background.The present volume, like the vast majority of its predecessors, is mainly descriptive and entertaining.However, Dr. Thomson does have a message, which is a plea to re-introduce spa therapy, to take the place, in part, of expensive and often ineffectual drug treatment.On the whole, his arguments are persuasive and sensible.