As centres for health as well as fashionable holiday destinations, spas and seaside resorts provided rich terrain for the intersection of fashion and illness. The combination of sociability and ill health gave rise to a fashionable discourse of disease as an increasingly intensive focus on medicalisation was perpetuated by fashionable conversation. Many complained that such talk led to imagining illnesses, thus spreading trends for certain diseases. This article examines satires of the fashionable conversation of disease at the watering-places, arguing that they take issue with a perceived rising vein of hypochondria within these centres for illness and sociability.

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1770-1820年，文学界的流行病学话语

作为健康中心和时髦的度假胜地，温泉和海滨度假胜地为时尚与疾病的交汇提供了丰富的地形。社交性和不良健康的结合导致了一种时尚的疾病论断，因为时尚的对话使人们越来越关注医疗。许多人抱怨说这种谈话导致想像疾病，从而传播某些疾病的趋势。本文研究了在饮水场所流行的疾病讽刺讽刺小说，认为它们在这些疾病和社会交往中心内对感知到的软骨病的上升脉络产生了质疑。