Connecting the DOTS: Unprecedented Approach to Ensure Compliance This is the fourth in our series “The Sanatorium Files.” Throughout this series we’ve taken an in-depth look at how tuberculosis has been diagnosed and treated with folk cures and sanatorium stays throughout history, and the...
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7 Jul 2010
Rest and Fresh Air: The Sanatorium Movement This is the third installment in our series “The Sanatorium Files.” Photo of patients 'resting' at a sanatorium Without the scientific understanding needed to develop effective therapeutics to fight tuberculosis in its many forms, doctors, patients,...
30 Jun 2010
The Diagnosis Dilemma: How Could They Treat It If They Didn’t Know What It Was? Until the discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin in 1944, sufferers of tuberculosis and their physicians throughout recorded history did not know that the diverse collection of maladies and symptoms they fought were...
17 Jun 2010
Bethesda Sanatorium 1920; Photo by Louis Charles McClure, 1867-1957, www.hellodenver.com/Photos_People.Cfm What do wolf’s liver, the touch of a king and millipede syrup have in common? These were all early treatments for tuberculosis before the advent of the TB hospitals called sanatoriums and then...
16 Jun 2010
from The New York Times In Florida, a Lifeline to Patients With TB By DAMIEN CAVE LANTANA, Fla. — The last of the nation’s original tuberculosis sanitariums sits, improbably, just off Interstate 95, near a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Motel 6, and just behind fields of children playing soccer. The fading...