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Item 15940
Title: Dr. Millard Nickerson Home, 863 Main Street, Sanford
Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee
Date: circa 1905
Location: Sanford
Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 25085
Title: Health Parade, Portland, 1924
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1924
Location: Portland
Media: Glass negative
Item 65107
Title: Letter on poor hospital care, Virginia, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1864-10-14
Location: Alexandria; South Manchester
Media: Ink on paper
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Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
Exhibit
Sarah Sampson: Caring for Soldiers, Orphans
Sarah Sampson of Bath went to war with her husband, a captain in the 3rd Maine Regiment. With no formal training, she spent the next four and a half years providing nursing and other services to soldiers. Even after her husband became ill and returned to Maine, Sampson remained in the Washington, D.C., area aiding the sick and wounded.
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One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.