Disciplining the ‘viperous brat’: the Scarborough Spa controversy and the fraught relationship between chemistry and medicine in seventeenth-century England
Eighteenth-century depiction of Scarborough, Yorkshire with spas depicted in left foreground (taken from Thomas Gent, History of Hull (Annales Regioduni Hullini) (Hull: M.C. Peck and Son, 1865 [reprint of 1735 original]) As far...






