The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-16

Ir. EdWHru LIVINGSTON lrUueah "hS
only 26 years old when stricken with the
disease then supposed to mean certain
death. He went to Saranac to mako the
light for life that has meant NJ much
to thousands OF tuberculosis sufferers the
world over. He lived TO see his theory
for battling with the disease accepted by
the medical world and the institution
which he founded there become famous
among the worlds great s%anitaria.
He was born in New York October 3.
ls<s. the son OF DIR. James Trudeau. n
New York ply sician. He received his
medical education at the Lycee Bora
parte in Paris and the College OF Physi-
clans and Surgeons In this city. He
was graduated from the latter institu-
ton In 1871 and was on the threshold
OF what promised to be a successful
career as a New York practising physi-
clan when he tell a victim 10 tuberculosis
In 1874.
Saranac Lake. when DR.. Trudeau first
went there, consisted of a sawmill and
a few houses. II was forty-two miles
from a railroad. Clfnatically and In
other ways IL was the last place In the
world to have suggested itself as Il
refuge FOR co~nsumpt!ves. according to
the theories then prevailing respecting
the treatment OF the disease.
II was mainly with the idea OF shoot
ing rabbits so long as his ebOing vitality
would permit that Or. Trudeau with "A
guide arrived at the place. His dis
covery that the open air life In the dry
climate there a benefited him led him
to remain through the r!gors of an
Adirondack winter.
Convinced by Ills Experiments.
The experiment conducted on himself
convinced him that nutrition. rest and
' open air were the three prime factors in
the treatment Of the disease and In 1885
he built his first shack for patients. Two
men went to live In the shack to test
the ideas which Dr. Trudeau had evolved.
This was the beginning OF the Adiron-
dack Cottage Saritar!un. which, as an
! nounced by It's founder, was primarily
for TIE treatment Of inclplent consump-
ton IN working men and women. the
first Of its KIND in America.
At IN. time that Dr. Trudeau launched
his idea of the open air treatment ~
! consur ption there was more or less
sceptlcisn among physicians. He vas
fortunate, however. In obtaining the sup
port Of Or Alfred Loomis, but AT ars,
there was no money for doctors or
nurses and It was hard 10 Ill the few
beds. From these small beginnings he
lived to see the project reach extern
Five DN'lpA 'A.s WIN hi ~ v
fund amounting 10 several hundred thou
sands Of dollars contributed by grateful
patients and admirers.
Side b. side with his work OF healinc
in all the years that elapsed went on his
work OF investigation. His first labora.
tory was "A small room IN his little house
his sole equipment a microscope. one
day while on u short visit 10 New York
"A lamp exploded and the laboratory and
kgg h,n,. uar. k,rnnI Hoo rive ~ 1,
DIR. Oslcr sent pr, Trudeau this mes.
sage
DEAR TRruEAU | am sorry to hear
OF your misfortune, but take my wore
for it. there Is nothing like a FIRE 10 max.
4 man do a Phoenix trick"
Obtains TubercIe Bacillus.
After repeated failures Ipr. Trudeat
succeeded in obtaining the ;ubercle bacil,
lus in pure cultures and with these be,
gan his experiments in inoculatinl
guinea pigs, experiments regarded a.
be!nK far in advance OF any of theii
time. His guinea pigs he kept in a hol,
under ground. heated by u kcrosen.
lamp. His discovery that guinea pig,
might be- protected from certain tuber,
cu.ous Infection by previous inoculatioI
with tubercle bacilli of diminished
violence has been described by Or. Flex
ner as one of the essential prerequisite,
TO the important discoveries made since
respecting the disease.
Or. Trudenu in 1894 was able L
found the Saranac Laboratory for tn,
study of the disease, which was the frs
research laboratory for this purpose II
his country.
When the twentv-ffth anniversary O
the founding of his sanitarium was Celc
brated five years ago DIR. Trudeau re
ceived congratulations and ributcs iron
scientists and laylnen all over the world
His patients, numbering manN hundreds
arranged for Inn an entertainment an,
! in tableaux and pantomime depicted tn
inception md life OF the institution
which had been his Hes work,
Or. Trudeau married Charlotte q
Reare OF Douglaston. l.. ]. the year h
. was graduated as a physician. She wen
with him to the wood and Their" re
|. NAMED with him To her help ana en-
couragement, he said. was due much q
what he had achieved.