Author: Richard Melzer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439645523
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, the White Plague, or simply TB, was the number-one killer in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many physicians of the era advised their patients to chase the cure for tuberculosis in the Southwest, where the regions clean, dry, fresh air, high altitude, and sunshine offered relief for most and recovery for some. New Mexico, called the well country, was particularly eager to promote itself as a mecca for lungers with the coming of the railroad to the territory in 1880 and the creation of many new hospitals, known as sanitariums or sanatoriums (sans), which specialized in the treatment of TB. This is a brief history of New Mexicos sans, their patients, and the doctors, nurses, and staff who served them during the golden age of the TB industry, from the turn of the 20th century to the eve of World War II.
Sanatoriums of New Mexico
New Mexico Cottage Sanatorium, Silver City, New Mexico
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Category : Sanatoriums
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Pages : 26
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New Mexico Cottage Sanatorium
Author: New Mexico Cottage Sanatorium
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Health resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Chasing the Cure in New Mexico
Author: Nancy Owen Lewis
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0890136130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
This book tells the story of the thousands of “health seekers” who journeyed to New Mexico from 1880 to 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in the United States at the time. By 1920 such health seekers represented an estimated 10 percent of New Mexico’s population. The influx of “lungers” as they were called—many of whom remained in New Mexico—would play a critical role in New Mexico’s struggle for statehood and in its growth. Nearly sixty sanatoriums were established around the state, laying the groundwork for the state’s current health-care system. Among New Mexico’s prominent lungers were artists Will Shuster and Carlos Vierra, who “came to heal and stayed to paint.” Bronson Cutting, brought to Santa Fe on a stretcher in 1910, became the influential publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican and a powerful U.S Senator. Others included William R. Lovelace and Edgar T. Lassetter, founders of the Lovelace Clinic, as well as Senator Clinton P. Anderson, poet Alice Corbin Henderson, architect John Gaw Meem, aviator Katherine Stinson, and Dorothy McKibben, gatekeeper for the Manhattan Project. New Mexico’s most infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, first arrived in New Mexico when his mother, Catherine Antrim, sought treatment in Silver City.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0890136130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
This book tells the story of the thousands of “health seekers” who journeyed to New Mexico from 1880 to 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in the United States at the time. By 1920 such health seekers represented an estimated 10 percent of New Mexico’s population. The influx of “lungers” as they were called—many of whom remained in New Mexico—would play a critical role in New Mexico’s struggle for statehood and in its growth. Nearly sixty sanatoriums were established around the state, laying the groundwork for the state’s current health-care system. Among New Mexico’s prominent lungers were artists Will Shuster and Carlos Vierra, who “came to heal and stayed to paint.” Bronson Cutting, brought to Santa Fe on a stretcher in 1910, became the influential publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican and a powerful U.S Senator. Others included William R. Lovelace and Edgar T. Lassetter, founders of the Lovelace Clinic, as well as Senator Clinton P. Anderson, poet Alice Corbin Henderson, architect John Gaw Meem, aviator Katherine Stinson, and Dorothy McKibben, gatekeeper for the Manhattan Project. New Mexico’s most infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, first arrived in New Mexico when his mother, Catherine Antrim, sought treatment in Silver City.
St. Vincent Sanitarium, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Category : Sanatoriums
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Pages : 24
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Saint John's Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis
Author: Saint John's Sanatorium
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Category : Sanatoriums
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Saint Joseph Sanatorium, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Author: Saint Joseph Sanatorium
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Languages : en
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The United States Marine-Hospital Sanatorium, Fort Stanton, New Mexico
Author: United States. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
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Category : Sanatoriums
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Methodist Deaconess Sanatorium for Tuberculosis
Author: Methodist Church. National Women's Home Missionary Society
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Category : Sanatoriums
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Pages : 0
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Doctors of Medicine in New Mexico
Author: Jake W. Spidle
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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