The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-21

OF educaCl0n ana OCner government DOQ1eS
through which it reaches the public.
The Christmas seal has become an annual in
stitution and offers at the Christmas season an
opportunity for rich and poor alike to help in
the fight against an ancient enemy. Editors, pub
fishers, womens clubs, business mems clubs, mo-
ton picture theaters high school boys and girls,
parent-teacher associations, labor unions ana
lodges are among the many who give valuable
assistance to the seal sale. Without such help
the program Of work for the following year could
never be carried through successfully.
This year, for the first time in the history
of the Christmas seal, it depicts something other
than one Of the familiar Christmas symbols Not
only does it commemorate the fftieth anniver-
sary of the tuberculosis sanitorium movement
and the beginning Of the first rational study OF
the disease in the United States but it also hon.
ors an American health hero DR.. Edward Liv-
ingston Trudeau.
For the picture on the 1884 Christmas seal,
designed by Herman Giesen of New York, an
Ohio boy who for number Of years has been
drawing illustrations for children's books and
magazines is that of Little Red" as it is famil-
iarly called, one-room cottage at Saranac lake
in the heart of the Adirondacks, which Doctor
Trudeau built in 1884, just so years ago. There
he began his intensive observations resulting in
the present methods Of treatment of the disease.
This little cottage was the nucleus from which
sprang Trudeau sanatorium, world-famous CEN
ter for treatment and research and some 600
other sanatoria throughout the country.
Incidentally, Doctor Trudeau's first patient was
himself. At the time the diagnosis of the disease
was equivalent to a sentence Of death. No cure
was known, and the unfortunate individual con-
tracing it could only mark time against the in
evitable. But Edward Livingston Trudeau
changed all that
Trudeau born in New York city on Octo-
Der 5, 1S4S, the son Of a family Of doctors, for
both his own father and his mothers father were
physicians. His father was also lover Of the
outdoors, friend of the great authority on birds,
John James Audubon, whom he accompanied on
some Of the naturalist's scientific expeditions and
for whom he often drew illustrations of birds
and eggs. Young Trudeau inherited his fathers
love for the woods and this was to play an i'm
portant part in his later life.
When Trudeau grew up he was not quite sure
what he wanted to do. An older brother had
gone into business, but this did not appeal to
him. Finally he decided upon q career at sea
and he was about to enter the United States
Naval academy when something happened that
was to change his whole life. His brother be-
came very i'll of tuberculosis and young Edward
gave up his appointment to Annapolis and
turned home to nurse his brother TO whom he
was greatly devoted
culoss was not fully understood and young Tru-
deau did not realize that his devotion to his
brother would so seriously affect his own health.
OF this Trudeau in his autobiography says:
ave occupied the same room and sometimes
the same bed. I bathed him and brought his
meals to him, and when he felt well enough to
go downstairs carried him up and down on my
back and I tried to amuse and cheer him through
the long days of fever and sickness. :. Not
AZ l.~s-z
to protect me against infection, but he told me
repeatedly never to open the windows, as Ii
would aggravate the cough; and never did, I'M
til toward the end my brother was so short Of
breath that he asked for fresh air. +. How
strange that, after helping stihe my brother and
injecting myself through such teaching as was
then in vogue, should have lived to save my
own life, and that of many others, by the simple
expedient of an abundance Of fresh ARP
After his brothers death, Trudeau realized
that he must start again on choosing career,
there being an added incentive in the fact that
he had fallen In love with a New York girl,
Charlotte Beare. He finally decided to become
doctor and In the fall Of 1868 he entered the
College Of Physicians and Surgeons In New York
city.
Miss Beare allowed Trudeau to announce his
engagement to her year before he was gradu-
ated from medical school The young couple went
abroad after their marriage on June g. 1871. On
the return "trip Trudeau began to show symptoms
Of tuberculosis, but they were not understood as
symptoms at that time He and his wife took a
little cottage on Long Island and there spent
very happy year. But Trudeau felt that he would
make more progress In his profession IL he were
In New York. He took house in the city and
two months later he was offered a partnership
with a weIl-known physician. After Trudeau was
settled in New York he began to feel tired all
the time and was advised to have his longs ex-
amined The doctor who examined him told him
that his left lung was actively tuberculous
In those days consumption was considered alb
solntely fatal Trudeau says:
81 pulled myself together, put as good q face