Person/Organization: Nichols, Estes
Item 23586
Brief history of Maine Sanatorium, 1909
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1909-09-17 Location: South Poland; Hebron Media: Ink on paper
Item 23612
Sanatorium expenses, Hebron, 1913
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1913-05-01 Location: South Poland; Hebron Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
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.
