Chasing the Cure in New Mexico: Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health

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This book tells the story of the thousands of “health seekers” who journeyed to New Mexico from 1880 to 1940 in quest of a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in america on the time. By 1920 such health seekers represented an estimated 10 percent of New Mexico’s population. The influx of “lungers” as they were known as―many of whom remained in New Mexico―would play a very important role in New Mexico’s struggle for statehood and in its growth. Nearly sixty sanatoriums were established across the state, laying the groundwork for the state’s current health-care system. Among New Mexico’s prominent lungers were artists Will Shuster and Carlos Vierra, who “came to heal and stayed to paint.” Bronson Cutting, brought to Santa Fe on a stretcher in 1910, was the influential publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican and a strong U.S Senator. Others included William R. Lovelace and Edgar T. Lassetter, founders of the Lovelace Clinic, in addition to Senator Clinton P. Anderson, poet Alice Corbin Henderson, architect John Gaw Meem, aviator Katherine Stinson, and Dorothy McKibben, gatekeeper for the Manhattan Project. New Mexico’s most infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, first arrived in New Mexico when his mother, Catherine Antrim, sought remedy in Silver City.

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