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JAMA. 1966;196(13):1151.

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It is alleged that magic mists which shroud the mountaintops pervade the air with health-restoring powers. "During the entire journey," wrote Trudeau¹ in his autobiography reminiscing about his historic move to the Adirondacks, "I had felt gloomy forebodings as to the hopelessness of my case, but, under the magic influence of the surroundings I had longed for, these all disappeared and I felt convinced I was going to recover."

The "magic influence" indeed worked wonders for Trudeau, who lived to see his humble establishment at Saranac Lake, NY, grow and develop into a modern sanatorium—the first of its kind on the North American continent and a model for others to follow.

One of Trudeau's patients was Robert Louis Stevenson, who spent the fall-winter of 1887-1888 at Saranac Lake; there he wrote some of his best essays. To his physician's disappointment, none of the latter dealt with the writer's immediate . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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