RARE \"Tuberculosis Pioneer\" David Lyman Hand Written Note
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to its first six patients on September 20, 1904. The hospital's 500 acres were
originally purchased in 1793 by Dr. Moses Gaylord. The land stayed in the
family until 1903 when the New Haven County Anti-Tuberculosis Association
bought it at a nominal price. This Association, founded in 1902 to combat the
rapidly increasing problem of tuberculosis (TB) in Connecticut, was to become
the Gaylord Farm Association as it is known today. One of the first Public
Health Associations to be organized in the United States, its objective
was: To establish and maintain a sanatorium and hospital in New Haven
County, on a non-profit basis, for the care and treatment of cases of pulmonary
tuberculosis susceptible to amelioration...and to do generally anything and
everything necessary, expedient or incidental to the operation of a sanatorium
in all its phases. Dr. David Russell Lyman (1876-1956) was the first
director of Gaylord Farm Sanatorium. After completing his medical training and internship
in Baltimore, he went to the Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake in 1901 to
study TB. There, he soon discovered he had TB. Upon his recovery, he decided to
crusade against what was then called "the great white plague," the
leading cause of death in the early 1900s. Florence Randolph Burgess was
the first director of nursing and assistant superintendent during Gaylord's
earliest years. In 1904, while visiting relatives in New Haven, she learned of
the new tuberculosis sanatorium. She talked with the board of directors of the
New Haven County Anti-Tuberculosis Association and soon presented herself to a
surprised Dr. Lyman, announcing that she would be head nurse. Her sudden
arrival gave him little choice, but she proved to be as capable and versatile
as she was determined.
RARE \"Tuberculosis Pioneer\" David Lyman Hand Written Note:
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