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Elizabeth Bugie Gregory (October 5, 1920 – April 10, 2001) was an American biochemist who co-discovered Streptomycin, the first antibiotic against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Selman Waksman laboratory at Rutgers University. [1] Waksman went on to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1952 and took the credit for the discovery.
In 2014, results of a new DNA study of a tuberculosis genome reconstructed from remains in southern Peru suggest that human tuberculosis is less than 6,000 years old. Even if researchers theorise that humans first acquired it in Africa about 5,000 years ago, [1] there is evidence that the first tuberculosis infection happened about 9,000 years ...
Edward Livingston Trudeau (October 5, 1848 – November 15, 1915) was an American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake for the treatment of tuberculosis. [ 1 ] Dr. Trudeau also established the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis , the first laboratory in the United States dedicated to the ...
Dr. Edith M. Lincoln (born Edith Maas; 1899–1991) was an American physician. Lincoln received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School and was one of the first women interns at Bellevue Hospital. [1] She founded the pediatric pulmonology unit at Bellevue in 1922, specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis, and led the unit ...
Originally the first-floor porches were open; they were closed in by the American Management Association after the sanatorium had closed 1906 view of the chapel and cure cottages shown above. The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium was a tuberculosis sanatorium established in Saranac Lake, New York in 1885 by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau.
Susan La Flesche Picotte (June 17, 1865 – September 18, 1915) [1] was a Native American medical doctor and reformer and member of the Omaha tribe.She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous people, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree. [2]
In the past 20 years, the department said, it has had to enlist the help of law enforcement to detain three people who refused tuberculosis treatment until they were no longer infectious.
By 1947, more than 15,000 patients had received treatment there. [citation needed] The sanatorium closed in 1954, after the discovery of effective antibiotic treatments for tuberculosis. [8] In 1957 Trudeau's grandson, Francis B. Trudeau Jr., sold the property to the American Management Association. [9]