Portrait of healing : curing in the woods / Victoria E. Rinehart ; foreword by Garry Trudeau ; editorial assistance provided by, Mary Hotaling and Florence H. Wright.
- Rinehart, Victoria E., 1944-
- Date:
- 2002
- Books
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"Portrait of Healing chronicles the life and passions of the gifted and visionary physican, Edward L. Trudeau. Hope, courage, and unselfish devotion to others most certainly describes this man who founded the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium, later to be renamed the Trudeau Sanitorium, in Saranac Lake, New York. This sanitorium was the first of its kind in America and became the model for the cure and treatment of tuberculosis throughout the United States. Trudeau, who was also suffering from tuberculosis, spent countless hours learning to correctly identify the tubercle bacillus. He created the first laboratory in the country to be exclusively devoted to the study of tuberculosis and developed unprecedented scientific evidence of the interaction between environment and disease." -- dust jacket flap.
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- MedicineHistory19th century
- SanatoriumsHistory
- Hospitals, Chronic Diseasehistory
- Physicianshistory
- History of Nursing
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonaryhistory
- Saranac Lake (N.Y.)
- United States
- Trudeau, Edward Livingston, 1848-1915.
- Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium (Saranac Lake, N.Y.)
- Trudeau Sanatorium (Saranac Lake, N.Y.)
- Trudeau Institute
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Location Status History of MedicineCAF.621.COpen shelves
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- 0925168831
- 9780925168832