Tag: tuberculosis

Open-air schools and sitting-out bags: Keeping children safe during tuberculosis scares

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date December 10, 2020
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This is a sitting-out bag. No child ever wore one because he wanted to impress his friends. But this awkward example of outdoor wear was created to save lives and keep students educated during one very concerning health crisis. Teaching children during perilous moments of disease spread had been a challenge since the invention of… Read More

Tags children, Columbia University, disease, fashion, Lewis Hine, school, tuberculosis

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The Turtle Cure: In New York, a German doctor offers an unusual remedy for tuberculosis

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date March 10, 2020
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“I am here to show what the serum will do,” said the visiting doctor from Berlin. “That is my only answer to those who have natural doubts before they have made observations.” Dr. Friedrich Franz Friedmann had come to New York in February 1913 to tackle one of the city’s most persistent scourges upon its… Read More

Tags disease, tuberculosis, Waldorf-Astoria