A hospital specialized in treating certain illnesses and in convalescence, common from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth. Tuberculosis patients were housed in high places, with pure air and open balconies, and were given rest and good food. Davos, in Switzerland, at 1,560 meters above sea level, was one of the great European centers of this treatment.
Where It Appears
- Chapter I: The Arrival at the Berghof
- Chapter II: The Baptismal Basin and the Two Figures of the Grandfather
- Chapter III: The First Full Day and the Arrival of Settembrini
- Chapter IV: The Sense of Time, Hippe and the Thermometer
- Chapter V: Humaniora, the Analysis and Walpurgis Night
- Chapter VI: Naphta, the Snow and the Death of Joachim
- Chapter VII: Peeperkorn, the Great Boredom and the Thunder