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Saranac Lake and the cure cottages
1884
Saranac Lake, New York
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Edward Trudeau came here to die of tuberculosis, got better in the cold air, and built the first American sanatorium for it. A whole town reorganised around the treatment, houses were built with wide porches where patients lay wrapped in furs through the winter, because the cure was fresh air and nothing else worked until antibiotics. Hundreds of those cure cottages still stand as ordinary homes.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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