19 feb 1884 año - Tuberculosis

Descripción:

Trudeau opens the first TB Sanitarium in the U.S. Germ Theory was early during this time, so treatment had little to do with medicine. Treatment for TB included bed rest as the thought was, since the lungs are sick, you need to rest them in breathe in clean, cold air. In other instances, Sun and UV therapy was included as treatment as the thought was, if plants don't get sunlight, they die so that logic was applied to Humans without knowledge of the damaging effects of prolonged exposure to UV.