The Heliantia Sanatorium in Valadares, Portugal was used for the treatment of bone tuberculosis between the 1930s and 1960s.Īfter 1943, when Albert Schatz, a graduate student at Rutgers University, discovered Streptomycin, the first true cure for tuberculosis, sanatoriums began to close. The ill of Europe were sent to recover there. Switzerland had many sanatoriums, as it was believed that clean mountain air was the best treatment for lung diseases. Holley Hospital in Lantana, Florida is the last remaining freestanding tuberculosis sanatorium in the United States. It has become a mecca for curiosity-seekers who believe it is haunted. Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a Louisville, Kentucky tuberculosis sanatorium, was founded in 1911. The first tuberculosis sanatorium for blacks was Burkeville, Virginia's Piedmont Sanatorium. In the early twentieth century, tuberculosis sanatoriums (or sanatoria) were common in the United States. The rationale for sanitoriums was that before antibiotic treatments existed, a regime of rest and good nutrition offered the best chance that the sufferer's immune system would "wall off" pockets of pulmonary tuberculosis infection. Accordingly, they took the Latin verb root sano, meaning to heal, and adopted the new word sanatorium". A distinction was sometimes made between a "sanitarium" (a kind of health resort, as in the Battle Creek Sanitarium) and "sanatorium" (a hospital).Īccording to the Saskatchewan Lung Association, when the National Anti-Tuberculosis Association was founded in 1904, it was felt that a distinction should be made between the health resorts with which people were familiar and the new tuberculosis treatment hospitals: "So they decided to use a new word which instead of being derived from the Latin noun sanitas, meaning health, would emphasize the need for scientific healing or treatment. A sanatorium (also sanitorium, sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, typically tuberculosis.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |