Source: Atlas Obscura
You’ll see them all around Saranac Lake, New York: Victorian-style homes with long wrap-around porches and balconies. These are the Saranac Lake “cure cottages,” and for several decades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were where you came to get “cured” of tuberculosis.
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The idea started with Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, a pioneer in the study and treatment of tuberculosis, the highly infectious and often fatal…
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