Deliberately jaunty!!

This is how Bath does hospitals! Into Bath today for an appointment with my Specialist OT at 'The Min'. Still no miracle cure, and just the same advice about pacing (boring!), so I'll follow my own course of treatment of jumping on buses, and doing my best to keep smiling!!

"The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases is a small, specialist NHS hospital in the centre of Bath...

From the 16th century the needs of the "deserving poor" who came to take the healing waters of the Roman Baths were recognised and an act of 1597 gave them the right to free use of the waters. This attracted beggars and was repealed in 1714 but large numbers were still attracted to the city and St John's Hospital was only accessible to local residents. Plans were suggested for a hospital to receive them in 1716...

The hospital was founded in 1738 as The Mineral Water Hospital, and is still known locally as "The Min"... Then, it provided care for the impoverished sick who were attracted to Bath because of the supposed healing properties of the mineral water from the spa. The original building was designed by John Wood the Elder and built with Bath Stone donated by Ralph Allen... It is a Grade II listed building. There is a fine pediment in Bath stone, depicting the parable of the Good Samaritan." Wikipedia