SIX YEARS' EXPERIENCE AT THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE SANATORIUM FOR TUBERCULOSIS.

Abstract

In presenting the results of six years' experience in the treatment of tuberculosis, chiefly in the pulmonary form, at the State Sanatorium in Rutland, Mass., it is with pleasure and pride that we recall the fact that Massachusetts was the first state in the Union to adopt as a public enterprise methods which had been successfully used for many years abroad and later in our own country at private institutions, notably that of Dr. Trudeau at Saranac Lake, New York. It should be remembered, moreover, that the idea of treating this disease with any hope of success in a large number of cases in a moist, harsh climate like that of New England had been regarded with extreme doubt, to say the least, among the rank and file of the medical profession. The results obtained in previous years, however, at the small charitable institution, viz.: the Sharon Sanatorium at Sharon, Mass.