Climatotherapy and balneotherapy : the climates and mineral water health resorts (spas) of Europe and North Africa including the general principles of climatotherapy and balneotherapy, and hints as to the employment of various physical and dietetic methods / by Sir Hermann Weber and F. Parkes Weber ; edited by F. Parkes Weber.

Hermann David Weber

Date:: 1907

Credit: Climatotherapy and balneotherapy : the climates and mineral water health resorts (spas) of Europe and North Africa including the general principles of climatotherapy and balneotherapy, and hints as to the employment of various physical and dietetic methods / by Sir Hermann Weber and F. Parkes Weber ; edited by F. Parkes Weber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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10 parts of salt in the thousand. The mean temperature of the sea water at the Baltic resorts during the summer months is about Gl° F. to 62° F., sHghtly less than that at the German North Sea resorts, and several degrees lower than that at the resorts on the English Channel. At the Baltic resorts the sea attains its highest and pleasantest temperature for bathing (about 66° F. or higher) in August. At all the German Baltic spas, sea-bathing is only permitted at the regular establishments which have been erected for the purpose. They are large wooden structures projecting into the sea, and resembling the bathing establishments commonly employed for open-air bathing in inland lakes. Each health resort has at least two such establishments, one for ladies and one for gentlemen, some distance apart from each other. The times at which the establishments are 0]pen for use are fixed by the local authorities. No independent bathing is permitted (at least during the bathing season) on the coast or from boats. The forests near the coast form a special feature of the Baltic resorts, and not only afford protection from the sun during hot weather, but add considerably to the beauty of the scenery. At some places, such as Zoppot, shady plantations immediately adjoin the shore. Several places along the coast possess brine springs, which can be employed for baths before, or in some cases instead of, sea-bathing. Thus, Kolberg, Cammin, Dievenow, Swinemiinde, and Greifswald possess brines (Soolen) of strengths varying from 2 to 5 per cent. The thermal establishment connected with the brine springs of Swinemiinde is quite modern and complete in its arrangements. At Geoss-Mueitz in Mecklenbul-g-Schwerin, and at Zoppot, it may be mentioned that there are charitable sanatoria for scrofulous and weakly children of the poorer classes. EussiAN Baltic Eesoets EiGA (latitude 56° 57' north), the capital of Livonia, has a mean July temperature of 65;7° F. The mean temperature of the sea for the same month is about 66° F. Kemmben, not far from Eiga, is much visited for its cold sulphurous springs and peat baths. Aeeksbueg, on the south-east coast of the island of Oesel, is much frequented, and is chiefly known for its mud baths. Peenau, in Livonia, on the north-eastern shore of the Gulf of Eiga, and Hapsal, in Esthonia, are visited during summer for their sea baths and their mud baths. At these places the kind of baths termed ' diluted mud baths ' are much employed, the action

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