Therapeutics, Cutaneous and external
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Source: LCSH
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Patients Undergoing Heliotherapy at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1922-1930
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0035.00060
Abstract
A group of patients undergoing Heliotherapy at the Medical Building of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Patients were encouraged to spend time in the sun and open air as a form of treatment for tuberculosis. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of...
Dates:
between 1922-1930