The town of Colorado Springs, Colorado, played an important role in the history of tuberculosis in the era before antituberculosis drugs and vaccines. Tuberculosis management before this era was diffi
The Cragmor Sanatorium is now a building on the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus.
Nordach Sanatorium, Austin Bluffs, Colorado, in 1906
Modern Woodmen Sanitorium in Colorado Springs (1909)
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A sanatorium, also sanitarium or sanitorium, is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence.
Tuberculosis treatment in Colorado Springs
…before this era was difficult and often of limited effect. In the 19th century, a movement for tuberculosis treatment in hospital-like facilities called sanatoriums became prominent, especially in Europe and North America. Thus people sought tuberculosis treatment in Colorado Springs because of its dry climate and…
Brehmer sanatorium, photo before 1905, founded by Austrian physician Hermann Brehmer in Görbersdorf, Silesia (now Sokołowsko, Poland). Brehmer established the first German sanatorium for the systematic open-air treatment of tuberculosis; it was the first institution of its kind.[citation needed]
Hällnäs sanatorium, founded in 1926, was one of the largest sanatoria in Sweden for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
A 1978 Finnish postage stamp, depicting the 1933 Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium, designed by Alvar Aalto
The Lima Tuberculosis Hospital in 1911