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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Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

Utica, N.Y. : North Country Books, 2002.

Physical description

xix, 162 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 x 29 cm

Contents

Foreword / by Garry Trudeau -- Introduction -- The disease -- Ch. 1: In their own words: portrait of Edward Livingston Trudeau -- The early years (1848-1873) -- Into the wilderness (1873-1882) -- Discovery and innovation (1882-1887) -- Beginnings and endings (1887-1923) -- Ch. 2: University of hope: portrait of a patient -- Admission requirements -- Programs of study -- Occupational therapy -- Journal of the outdoor life -- The D. Ogden Mills Training School for Nurses -- Trudeau School of Tuberculosis -- Prevention -- Campus life: residential life, dormitory life, social life -- Alumni -- Land of dreams: a memorial to John Theodore Dalton, a patient -- Bob Davis recalls: the sotry of a great heart that dared not beat too fast -- The story of Anne: a close-up view: as told by Ann Irene Remis of Clinton, New York -- Ch. 3: In sickness and in health: portrait of a nurse -- Overview of nursing during the second half of the nineteenth century -- The pioneer nurses of Trudeau -- The D.Ogden Mills Training School for Nurses -- Caring in ways remembered: the nurses' stories -- The story of Lilo: a close-up view: as told by Lilo Levine of Saranac Lake, New York -- The end of an era -- Definitions of terms -- Surgical treatments -- Dr. Trudeau's stages of tuberculosis.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CAF.621.C
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0925168831
  • 9780925168832