Spa treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis before 1854

Andrzej Kierzek, Małgorzata Paprocka-Borowicz, Jadwiga Kuciel-Lewandowska, Wojciech Laber, Piotr Józefowski, Jacek Kotuła

Abstract


Treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by air and diet has been known for several thousand years. This issue was discussed by Aulus Cornelius Celsus (53 BCE–7 CE), Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1–2nd century), Pliny the Elder (24–79), Galen (129–201) and others. It is assumed that the first tuberculosis sanatorium was established in Görbersdorf (Sokołowsko) in Silesia in 1854, founded by Hermann Brehmer (1821–1889), a German doctor who dealt with the treatment of respiratory diseases. But physicians had already dealt with this issue. William Buchan (1729–1805), an English physician, in his work “Treatise on domestic medicine” published in 1783, recommended patients with tuberculosis to have access to clean and fresh air, milk and horse riding. The achievements of other British doctors, especially George 

Bodington (1799–1882), the author of “Essay on the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption on principles of natural, rational and successful”, are also presented. Fourteen years before Brehmer, Bodington presented the principles of treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by air and diet in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. In 1846 John Forbes (1787–1861) and Charles James Blasius Williams (1805–1889) founded the large infirmary “The Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest” in Brompton. This institution was designed exclusively for patients with tuberculosis. These were very important achievements for the spa treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Keywords


history of pulmonology; history of spa treatment of tuberculosis; pulmonary tuberculosis

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.229

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