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Collection of 10 Pennsylvania Sanitorium Booklets and Ephemera, Eagleville, Allentown and White Haven, Pennsylvania, 1937-1944, various sizes. Staple-bound booklets, bifolios, cards; some wrappers lightly toned, light edge wear; all items in very good condition. Includes two large booklets, one titled "Dawn of a New Day in the Treatment of Tuberculosis, or: The Evolution of Sanatorium Treatment for Pulmonary Tuberculosis, prepared under the supervision of A. J. Cohen, M.D." Signed on title page by Angela P. Cozza, who was a member of the White Haven Sanatorium School of Nursing Alumnae Association; a few photos are also labeled in pencil with the names of the people photographed. The booklet contains updates on the current methods of treatment and numerous black and white photos of the Eagleville sanatorium facilities. The other large booklet is titled "The Story of Devitt's Camp 1912-1937" and gives a history of Dr. William Devitt's tireless and pioneering efforts in the fight against tuberculosis, which included establishing the sanatorium known as Devitt's Camp at Allentown, PA, which served referring physicians and tuberculosis patients within a 200 mile radius. Devitt's camp was revolutionary because it was the only one in the country that allowed patients' families to move in with them while they received treatment and recovered in the fresh mountain air. Laid into the front of this booklet is a typed letter from Angela R. Cozza, Directress of Nurses, to Major Nellie M. Denison, A.N.C., responding to Denison's invitation to the dedication of Gardiner General Hospital in 1944. The Ruth M. Gardiner General Hospital in Chicago was named in honor of Second Lieutenant Ruth Gardiner (1914-1943), an alumnae of the Nursing School at the White Haven Sanatorium; she served in the United States Army Nurse Corps as a flight nurse in the Alaskan Theater during World War II, assisting in medical evacuations by plane. She was tragically killed in a plane crash during one such evacuation. The Gardiner General Hospital was the first Army hospital named for a woman or nurse. One of the smaller booklets in this set, published by the White Haven School of Nursing Alumnae Association in 1944, contains a printed black and white photo of Gardiner, and most of the pages are of her obituary. Other items in this collection include another Alumnae Association report; two annual reports, for March 1939 to February 1940 and March 1940 to February 1941, published by the Free Hospital for Poor Consumptives and White Haven Sanatorium Association; three commencement ceremony invitations and programs; and a program for the dedication of an American flag and flagpole to the White Haven Sanatorium by the Luzerne County Posts American Legion. All in all a very interesting collection of items concerning the advances in treatment of a disease that for hundreds of years caused roughly a quarter of all deaths in Europe and the United States, according to the CDC. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1170
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