RARE "Tuberculosis Pioneer" David Lyman MD 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.