Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!
From Chapter 5:
This is another of the Founding Fathers of “Swimming 2.0” and by far the least well known. In 1750, Dr. Richard Russell published his wildly popular Dissertation Concerning the Use of Sea Water in Diseases of the Glands, which made salt-water cures all the rage, which led to the rise of seaside English resorts like Brighton, which gave the revival of swimming something it desperately needed: an infrastructure.