Hot Springs National Park
The smallest National Park created to all the government to control a national treasure. It was believed the waters benefited diseases of the skin and blood, nervous affections, rheumatism and kindred diseases, and the "various diseases of women". After a bath of about 98 degrees, the patient might spend 2-5 minutes in a vapor cabinet, get 15 minutes of packs (wet, hot or cold), followed by a tepid needle shower and light massage and alcohol rub.
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