Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: First Generation Medical-Scientists

  • 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…