Excerpt from Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, 1888, Vol. 5: A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences Throughout the World A general summary of desirable climatic elements at health resorts is given in a lecture by Assmann before the Berlin Medical Society. The first property to be required is that the air shall be pure and, as far as possible, free from dust. This is found at the sea-shore, in forests and in the mountains. The air of mountains has an additional advantage in being almost free from bacterial germs of various sorts, non-pathogenic as well as pathogenic. Ozone should also be present in the air of health resorts. Unfortunately, however, our knowledge of atmospheric ozone is at present in a very uncertain state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.