Series 4.3: Patients at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Saranac Lake, N.Y., 1893 - 1895
Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This small collection of materials, 1893-1915, preserved by Mary
and Ruth Bradley, documents the life of Edward Livingston Trudeau,
physician and tuberculosis researcher, as well as the treatment
of tuberculosis patients at Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium
in Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the 1890s.
Series 1 contains two autographed letters, 1898 and circa 1902, from Edward Livingston Trudeau to Mary Bradley. Series 2 is an undated manuscript prescription by Trudeau for throat spray. Series 3 contains newsclippings and other printed materials; most of these items are obituary notices of Edward Livingston Trudeau who died in 1915.
The bulk of the Bradley Collection is contained in Series 4, Photographs. There are ten images of Edward Livingston Trudeau, 1893-1895, and two of his wife, Charlotte B. Trudeau, 1893 and undated, as well as five photographs of patients partaking of the outdoor cure for tuberculosis, 1893-1895. This cure was promoted by Trudeau at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. The series also contains an array of sixteen images of buildings at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and the Saranac Lake area, 1893-1897.
Series 1 contains two autographed letters, 1898 and circa 1902, from Edward Livingston Trudeau to Mary Bradley. Series 2 is an undated manuscript prescription by Trudeau for throat spray. Series 3 contains newsclippings and other printed materials; most of these items are obituary notices of Edward Livingston Trudeau who died in 1915.
The bulk of the Bradley Collection is contained in Series 4, Photographs. There are ten images of Edward Livingston Trudeau, 1893-1895, and two of his wife, Charlotte B. Trudeau, 1893 and undated, as well as five photographs of patients partaking of the outdoor cure for tuberculosis, 1893-1895. This cure was promoted by Trudeau at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. The series also contains an array of sixteen images of buildings at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and the Saranac Lake area, 1893-1897.
Dates
- 1893 - 1895
Extent
From the Collection: 7 folders
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Bradley, Mary Goodall (Person)
- From the Collection: Bradley, Ruth Goodall (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
Contact:
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org
