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Conquering Consumption with Exercise and Nature (Paperback)
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Conquering Consumption with Exercise and Nature (Paperback)
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Consumption was the deadliest, most common disease that mankind has
faced up till now. Three billion people in Europe and North America
died between the fourteenth and the end of the eighteenth century.
It was a death sentence with no known cause which led to the
development of unusual empirical therapies. Lucky Consumptive
patients reached a Sanatorium. Sanatoria were developed to house
sick patients in an environment where they stood the best chance of
recovery from their illness. There was no organised healthcare
system and funding for a Sanatorium depended upon provision
provided by wealthy individuals, or societies. Charles Dunnell Rudd
was a Cape Merchant who had made a fortune in South Africa
successfully prospecting for Gold and Diamonds. His mother had died
from Consumption and he wished to invest some of his money in
building a Sanatorium. It had been shown that Consumptive patients
survived longer if they took vigorous exercise, slept out of doors,
and were nursed on higher land near to forests. Rudd anonymously
purchased raised land at Northwood for this purpose. Helena (later
Princess Christian) was Queen Victoria's third daughter, and had a
marked social awareness, arranging charitable meals for the less
fortunate. She was very hard working and became the Principal
Patron for Mount Vernon Hospital, donating money and attending
annual fundraising Festival Dinners. Contemporary photographs from
this period show female patients walking around the grounds and
occupying designated rest shelters. The male patients had a more
vigorous lifestyle, working in the gardens and sleeping in their
beds out of doors. Those surviving often acquired new skills which
might enhance their future employment prospects. These measures
greatly improved the prognosis for consumptive patients. After Koch
discovered the Tubercle Bacillus effective curative
anti-tuberculous therapy evolved.
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