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In the early 1900s, European citizens, especially from the working class, suffered from diseases caused by nutrient deficiencies. In addition to tuberculosis, which was spreading in poor city quarters, so called skrofula (a lymphadenitis of the cervical lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis) and rickets were also spread. Houses for weakened and malnourished residents were built on the Baltic coast...
The history of the „Heilstätte“ (tuberculosis sanatoria) in Prussia begins with the young physician Dr. Hermann Brehmer. He established a sanatorium in the Silesian mountain village of Sokolowsko in which he developed his “hygienic-dietetic” program. Brehmer believed that the causes of tuberculosis were a small heart and large lungs and not just malnutrition and badly ventilated and unhygienic flats...
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