Sanatoriums of New Mexico / Richard Melzer ; foreword by Jake W. Spidle Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melzer, Richard., Author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Long-term care facilities--New Mexico--History--Pictorial works.

Long-term care facilities.

Sanatoriums--New Mexico--History--Pictorial works.

Sanatoriums.

Tuberculosis--Hospitals--New Mexico--History--Pictorial works.

Tuberculosis.

New Mexico--History--Pictorial works.

New Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations, facsimiles, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Publishing, [2014]

Summary:

Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, the White Plague, or simply TB, was the number-one killer in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many physicians of the era advised their patients to chase the cure for tuberculosis in the Southwest, where the region's clean, dry, fresh air, high altitude, and sunshine offered relief for most and recovery for some. New Mexico, called the "well country," was particularly eager to promote itself as a mecca for lungers with the coming of the railroad to the territory in 1880 and the creation of many new hospitals, known as sanitariums or sanatoriums ("sans"), which specialized in the treatment of TB. This is a brief history of New Mexico's sans, their patients, and the doctors, nurses, and staff who served them during the golden age of the TB industry, from the turn of the 20th century to the eve of World War II.

Contents:

Inventing the Sans

Santa Fe's St. Vincent and Sunmount sanatoriums

Albuquerque's St. Joseph Sanatorium

Albuquerque's Presbyterian Sanatorium

Albuquerque's smaller sanatoriums

New Mexico's military sanatoriums

Northern New Mexico sanatoriums

Southern New Mexico sanatoriums

Successes and failures

Passing of an era.

OCLC:

900734258