Turban k ed (1 risultati)

Verlagsanstalt Buchdruckerei Davos A.-G., 1911. 8:o. (7, 1 blank), 319, (1) pp. + 61 plates (on 24 leaves). Publisher's green cloth in art deco-design. Two corners bumped. Tiny specks on both paste-downs. Light stains in margins of the first plate. Approx. 10 pages with light underscorings in red pencil. A profusely-illustrated collection of articles describing the more important factors that helped turn Davos into one of Europe's leading health and tourist resorts. Its editor, Dr Karl Turban, was one of the first specialist physicians in Davos, and the first to use open-air shelters in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. He became internationally known for his diagnostic skills and played an important role in the development of the town's sanatoria. In 1912 Thomas Mann spent four weeks in Davos, where his wife Katya was under treatment for lung catarrh, a visit that inspired the writing of his monumental novel The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), which gave Davos a permanent place on the map of world literature.…