Did you know that long ago physicians recommended going to the beach for medical reasons? When consumption or tuberculosis was claiming lives by the thousands back in the 1900s some doctors had a rather unconventional approach to treat it. So patients were sent to the seaside by the droves to breathe the salty sea air. It was believed to have curative powers which could heal the respiratory organs and reduce the intensity of the disease. But the health benefits of the sea were known to man even before that. 'Thalassotherapy' or sea therapy was prescribed by Hippocrates the father of