Excerpt from The Hot Springs of Bath: Medical Handbook
Though Bath has been a Health Resort for more than eighteen centuries, its pre-eminence among our home Spas is not due alone to its antiquity. The source of all its historic reputation, the origin of its name and very existence may be traced to its Healing Springs. No other watering-place in Britain has been similarly endowed by nature, for it is at Bath alone in these Isles that natural hot medicinal springs are to be found. Unlike some resorts created and fostered merely by the fancy of a generation, Bath has at no time in its history been wholly subservient to the inconstant mandates of fashion. Its springs were always too health-giving to be forsaken, and to this precious gift of nature for the alleviation of human suffering, Bath may attribute the making of a history more remarkable, and a position all through the ages more assured, than that of any other British Spa.
The Romans were well versed in the science of Balneology, and that they seized upon the site of Bath for the raising of temples and Baths, lofty and magnificent, was doubtless due to the fact that at no other spot in Britain did nature so provide for their needs. The waters rising hot from the earth, their baths could be filled direct from the springs in like manner to the baths in the modern bathing establishments at the present day. The springs having a temperature of 117° to 120° Fahr. no artificial heating had to be employed at the risk of impairing their healing virtues. That Bath remains to this day the only resort in Britain where natural hot curative baths can be obtained is a phenomenon that is influencing the medical profession more and more as its therapeutic importance becomes appreciated.
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