Abstract
It is alleged that magic mists which shroud the mountaintops pervade the air with health-restoring powers. "During the entire journey," wrote Trudeau<sup>1</sup>in his autobiography reminiscing about his historic move to the Adirondacks, "I had felt gloomy forebodings as to the hopelessness of my case, but, under the<i>magic</i>influence of the surroundings I had longed for, these all disappeared and I felt convinced I was going to recover." The "magic influence" indeed worked wonders for Trudeau, who lived to see his humble establishment at Saranac Lake, NY, grow and develop into a modern sanatorium—the first of its kind on the North American continent and a model for others to follow. One of Trudeau's patients was Robert Louis Stevenson, who spent the fall-winter of 1887-1888 at Saranac Lake; there he wrote some of his best essays. To his physician's disappointment, none of the latter dealt with the writer's immediate
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