Cousin Lizzie's tuberculosis tent Open Air Therapy

[Guest guest]

Sleeping outside to help rid the body of antigen substances is nothing

new. It is amazing what we have forgotten in medicine once antibiotics came on

the scene.

Cousin Lizzie's tuberculosis tent.

Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, University of Louisville,

Kentucky, USA.

Abstract

Before the discovery of antibiotics as a cure for tuberculosis in the

1940s, open-air therapy was the standard treatment for the disease. This

article describes how families and health care institutions used tents, shacks,

balconies, and verandas to expose loved ones and patients to the cold, pure

air that was believed to help them fight tubercle bacillus.

_http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18196779_

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18196779)