Tag: Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau
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Tuberculosis Retrenched at Saranac Lake: A Herald for Contemporary Hospitals
Gregory M. Rutecki “…progress is the retrenchment of diseases.”1 “In 1870, physicians could do little to cure…A hundred years later they intervene…in many…diseases. In a single century…understanding of disease increased more than in the previous forty centuries combined.”2 At the fin de siècle, American Medicine acquired a Promethean fire. Weapons would be forged against a…