Sanatoria for consumptives in various parts of the world (France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, the United States and the British Possessions) : a critical and detailed description together with an exposition of the open-air or hygienic treatment of phthisis / by F. Rufenacht Walters ; with an introduction by Sir Richard Douglas Powell.

  • Walters, F. Rufenacht.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Sanatoria for consumptives in various parts of the world (France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, the United States and the British Possessions) : a critical and detailed description together with an exposition of the open-air or hygienic treatment of phthisis / by F. Rufenacht Walters ; with an introduction by Sir Richard Douglas Powell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    at a charge of $2.50 per week, including medical attendance and drugs. There is accommodation for forty children. The Montefiore Home Country Sanitarium is under the same management as the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids at New York, described at p. 117. It is situated at Bedford Station, Westchester Co., New York State, in a sheltered situation on the Berkshire Hills, which form the highest part of the county, and is sixty miles from New York or one and a half hours by rail. Opened early in 1897 with beds for ten patients, it was very soon enlarged to accommodate forty; and it is hoped to further extend the number of beds to sixty. The two buildings are frame houses, one of which has a ]arge verandah. There is also a good bathroom, and heat- ing by hot water. The grounds cover 136 acres of land. It was originally a, farm ; and patients are sent there who are able to do a little light work, with the object of ultimately making the sanatorium self - supporting. It has already begun to supply the Home in New York with milk and eggs. Nearly all the patients are consumptives in an early stage ; but a few are sufferers from asthma, neurasthenia, etc. Only men are admitted, and no charge of any kind is made. There is at present no house physician ; but one of the visit- ing physicians of the Home in New York attends once a week, and more frequently if called through the telephone. The Seaton Sanitarium is situated at Spuyten Duyvil, N.Y., and has two visiting- physicians, Dr. Jackson and Dr. Shrady, but no house phy- sician. I have, however, no further information about it. Sharon Sanitarium, which was founded by Dr. V. Y. Bowditch in 1890 by means of public subscription, is situated about one and a half miles from the village of Sharon, live minutes' walk from the