biography
| name: |
Trudeau, Edward Livingston
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pronunciation:
[troodoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1848–1915)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in New York City, New York, USA. He switched from the navy to the study of medicine after nursing his brother who died of tuberculosis (1868), graduating from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons (1871). In 1873, ill with tuberculosis himself, he recuperated seven years in the Adirondack Mts (New York). Remaining there to practise medicine and study tuberculosis, he founded the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium (later famous as the Trudeau Sanitarium) at Saranac Lake (1884). In 1894 he established the Saranac Laboratory, the first such to study tuberculosis, and where he was the first American physician to conduct experiments for tuberculosis immunity. He died of tuberculosis, as did his daughter before him, and the Trudeau Sanitarium closed in 1957, thanks to new anti-tuberculosis therapy which his contributions helped to advance. |
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