摘要
Spas were medical facilities in small towns and villages offering hydrotherapy and other treatments on the basis of local mineral springs.Within the world of spa culture in German-speaking Europe,there was a major shift of emphasis in diagnosis and treatment between the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth.A previous emphasis on“rest”(Ruhe)as the indication for treatment shifted to recommending sport and physical exertion.Tennis,in a sense,replaced the resting bench in the park.Why the upper-middle-class world of spa culture underwent these changes seems to have depended on changes in the larger culture.Yet the change was unmistakable and profound.
