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#1: TB treatment Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:06 pm

I was watching 'Who do they think they are?' the one for Moira Stuart's family and it was mentioned that her grandfather had worked in a TB hospital in place in Kingussie in Scotland, which at that time was known as 'the Switzerland of the British Isles' as the air was so pure there it was thought to be good for the patients. In fact it was thought to be so good that patients had their beds put outside at night and slept in the snow! Wonder if Jem did that for his patients on the Sonnalpe? Liz

 

#2:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:30 pm

The windows would be open, I should imagine to allow the patients to get the benefit of the lovely pure alpine air.

 

#3:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 3:30 pm

I saw that too. The only treatment was rest, fresh air and a good diet so perhaps he did. Though it would be colder in Switzerland, so maybe not.

 

#4:  Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:15 pm

Probably cured them of TB by allowing them to die of pnemonia!

 

#5:  Author: auntie karry, Location: Stoke on Trent PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:01 pm

My dad caught TB when he was a nurse during the early '50s. Rather than go to a San he was able to be treated at the hospital he was nursing in ( a psychiatric hospital, by the way) and spent most of the 18 months he was there on a covered balcony, only having his bed moved inside when the wind blew the rain in! This probably accounts for there being 11 years between me and my next oldest sister! Laughing

 

#6:  Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:34 pm

I have a cousin who was conceived in a TB Sanatorium.....

 

#7:  Author: Ann, Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, England PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:00 pm

Lesley wrote:
I have a cousin who was conceived in a TB Sanatorium.....
Shocked Well, that's a cure I hadn't heard of before...

 

#8:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:09 pm

Anyone who has read Betty MacDonald's book 'The Plague and I' will recall that TB was supposed to increase (how can I put it delicately?) natural urges and this was one of the reasons for banning fraternising ( Twisted Evil ) by men and women patients.

 

#9:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:24 pm

Lesley wrote:
Probably cured them of TB by allowing them to die of pnemonia!
Pleuro-pneumonia, of course. Wink

 

#10:  Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:34 pm

patmac wrote:
Anyone who has read Betty MacDonald's book 'The Plague and I' will recall that TB was supposed to increase (how can I put it delicately?) natural urges and this was one of the reasons for banning fraternising ( Twisted Evil ) by men and women patients.
Well my aunt and uncle obviously worked out ways of getting past that! My cousin was born some six months after her parents got married - she was a very premature baby Wink They did celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary before my uncle died.

 

#11:  Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:29 pm

I remember reading a story that involved a patient in a san in Switzerland and it had the lad sleeping outside in all weathers, I think it mentioned snowing on the bed at one point, but I may be misremembering that point. It was definatly mentioned aboout the cold though. Will look the book up when I go up to bed and try and give you all a quote tomorrow.

 

#12:  Author: Nell, Location: London, England PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:40 pm

Wehn I was cataloguing hospital records these include a photograph ablum fron the bone hospital at Stanmore which was full of patients (mainly children) with TB outside in the snow dressed in nothign but a kind of nappy and a pair of shoes! And they had beds outside and on the roof! Also they seemed very brown - made me wonder about later instances of skin cancer!

 

#13:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:04 pm

Nell wrote:
Wehn I was cataloguing hospital records these include a photograph ablum fron the bone hospital at Stanmore which was full of patients (mainly children) with TB outside in the snow dressed in nothign but a kind of nappy and a pair of shoes! And they had beds outside and on the roof! Also they seemed very brown - made me wonder about later instances of skin cancer!
That's quite accurate. I spent 2 years on a similar ward with a bone disease which was not TB but because it was very rare, there was no where else to put me! The theory was that the extra vitamin D from the sun would help bones to heal. They put tarpaulins on the ends of the beds when the rain drove in. I never had a cold the whole time I was there!

 

#14:  Author: Rachael,  PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:31 pm

patmac wrote:
I never had a cold the whole time I was there!
I expect the poor germs never had a chance!! Very Happy

 

#15:  Author: KB, Location: Melbourne, Australia PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:47 pm

Nell wrote:
made me wonder about later instances of skin cancer!
I suspect they thought the TB would have killed them first.

 

#16:  Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:04 am

I know someone who spent most of his childhood in a TB sanatorium he had TB and was an orphan he lived on a balcony. They only had tarpaulins if the rain was torrential. He never gets ill at all now.

 

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