Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Vincennes

  • One woman’s journey for a tuberculosis cure

    Terri Sinnott Chicago, Illinois, United States   Edmund and Theresa Brouillette c. 1900, Sinnott Family Collection “By 1900 . . . one-third of the new-comers to Colorado had come in search of health benefits.”1 My great-grandmother Theresa Brouillette became the “one in three” on October 31, 1902 when she boarded the train in Vincennes, Indiana…