Prevention and Treatment for TB at Arequipa Sanatorium

Tuberculosis prevention and treatment in Arequipa sanatorium "Ceramics" for Arequipa nursing home and its treatment of tuberculosis was established in 1911 in Fairfax, Marin County, California's North Bay area. From the beginning, it was a private company started by Dr. Philip King Brown. On October 22, 1913, a housewife, 21 pounds, weighing 111 pounds, stayed in Arequipa for a "cough". When she returned home on February 28, 1914, she worked 105 hours in Arequipa pottery, earning 4 dollars and 5 cents for it.

In 1949, when her mother was about 10 years old, Granpa was infected with tuberculosis (TB). It was often a fatal disease then. Due to the infectious nature of tuberculosis (due to cough through the air), he was limited to nursing homes where many of his tuberculosis patients died of illness. The surviving TB Grampa had the opportunity to attend a trade school where he studied the land investigation and finally got a vocational survey from the Washington State Fisheries and Transport Ministry where he was working on the new interstate highway system. Before I-5 retired in Washington in the mid 1970's

Despite this early commitment, the first widely practiced treatment is nursing home treatment, which was the first major advance in tuberculosis treatment. Silesian student, Herman Bremer, suffering from tuberculosis, told the doctor to look for a healthy climate. Bremer went to Himalayas where he studied botany. There he managed to get rid of the disease. He returned to Germany to study medicine. In 1854, he published his medical paper with a sensational name, TB is a treatable disease. Brehmer then opened a hospital surrounded by fir tree in Gorbersdorf. It became a model for all follow - up sanatories, including those drawn by Mr. Thomas Mann in Magic Mountain.