The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-09

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culoss germ, DR.. Trudeau inoculated
large number of rabbits with his
pure culture. Several of those little
animals he turned loose on an island
in ST. Regis lake. and others he lock-
ed up in a dark cellar and in various
unsanitary places. All of the rabbits
left in unhealthful surroundings died
of tuberculosis within three months.
while all of those allowed to run wild,
recovered.
Recalling this classic experiment.
DR.. Trudeau says, The results of this
research increased my confidence in
the influence of favorable environ
lnent on the course of the disease,
and confirmed my faith in the value
of the sanitarium and open-air method
of treating tuberculosis, of which l
was then making a practical applica-
ton"
Hardly had the value and usefulness
of this rude, homemade laboratory
been demonstrated, when one night,
" lille DR.. Trudeau was sick in New
York, the lamp of his improvised box
oven exploded and burned up his lab
oratory, his house and everything he
owned. 1t was here that another lead
! er in the war against tuberculosis
showed his faith in DR.. Trudeau: l am
sorry to hear of your misfortune. but
take my word for it. there is nothing
like a fire to make a man do the
Phoenix trick" The next day. through
the generosity of George c. Cooper.
Mrs. A. A. Anderson, and others,
funds were supplied for the erection
of a fireproof laboratory, which has
become a world-renowned institute of
research in tuberculosis.
In 1885. amid the soothing of most
of his friends DR.. Trudeau showed his
faith in the open-air movement by
starting the Adirondack Cottage SAM
tarium for persons who had tubercu-
losis. but who could not afford to pay
more than s. a week for their treat
nent. DIR. Trudeau recognized then
what has been so clearly demonstrate
ed today, that tuberculosis is a poor
mans disease and that most of the
victims of this malady cannot afford
to pay full price for their cure
| Arson Phelps Stone gave the first
contribution of $500 to the new santa
rum and Francisco Bianchi gave the
second of $500. The nucleus Of the
Sanitarium was a little red cottage
heated by a wood stove and lighted by
an oil lamp, in which DR.. Trudeau him
self had taken the cure. Although the
institution had capacity for only
nine patients. it was with the greatest
difficulty that the beds could be filled.
upon winter in the open air with the
zero temperature of the Adirondack
as little short of suicide. 1t was only
through the constant work of Dr. AL
. fred L. Loomis, of New York. the
| founder of the Loomis sanitorium at
Liberty, n. v, that enough patients
were finally persuaded to go to Sara.
nae Lake to fill the little institution
and it is largely through the winning
personality and encouragement of DR..
| Trudeau. that most of them were per-
suaded to stay after they arrived. Here
was the actual beginning of the cam
paign against tuberculosis in Ameri-
ca. From this little one roomed cot
tage have emanated the fires that have
kindled a nation. and have aroused
| millions to action. What a contract
the twenty-five years present. Less
than a dozen patients were treated by
DR.. Trudeau that first year: in 1909
| over 117,OOO tuberculosis patients re-
ceived treatment and assistance from
various sources. Only one institution
in 1885 and in 1910 we have $50 sana
toria and hospitals, 265 dispensaries
and 1914 associations. all devoted to the
treatment, study and prevention of tu-
! berculosis. The crusade against tu-
| berculosis started with an investment
| of a few thousand dollars. Today the
Adirondac Cottage Sanitarium is worth
more than a million and over $50 600.
| 600 is invested in the property of 9TH
err institutions and organizations doing
tuberculosis work. The first year of
treatment at DR.. Trudeaus original
! institution cost less than $4,000 Last
year over 100000 was spent in anti
tuberculosis work. and governmental
! appropriations alone for 1910 aggre-
gate S9.OOO,o0o, which, with private
expenditures. will bring the total sill
Yer jubilee's tuberculosis fund to be
spent this year. up to nearly S15.niO..
900 Twenty-Five Years ago hardly a
consumptive was cured of his disease
and the death rate was increasing In
every civilized country. Today
! thousands of sanatorium graduates
go out as cured every year and it is
a we'll known fact that - per cerr of
| the incipient cases of tuberculosis can
be cured if they are given a chance.