The Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium

The Magic Cottage:

This paper presents an exploratory study that investigates the impact of using a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) on enhancing creativity in imaginative writing at primary school level. The intervention was to present the pupils with an interactive 3D environment, using Virtual Reality (VR) technology, that provided the setting in which their stories could take place. Numerous interactive feat...

The First Cottage Hospital

The evolution of the cottage hospital.

IN THIS essay I have endeavoured to outline the trends in medical practice which led to the formation of the cottage hospital. The cottage hospital was something special, quite different from the other types of hospital. To understand these differences it has been necessary to mention the way other kinds of hospitals developed. The influence of these new hospitals on general practice in the nin...

Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Sanatorium Treatment

aspects of tuberculosis is the outcome of ten years' observation and work by the author in open-air sanatoria. It gives the matured convictions of one whose life has been given up to this kind of study. His experience has been large, and he is more than ever convinced that the sanatorium movement has not only revolutionised the treatment of consumption, but has shown to the world a way for the ...

The Magic Mountain revisited: History of the Madanapalle tB sanatorium

The sanatorium was central to tuberculosis treatment in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The long-drawn nature of treatment and the highly infectious nature of the disease made the sanatorium regimen effective and popular before antibiotics entered the scene. The sanatorium was not just a hospital, it was a social world – isolated from the rest of society it created its own definition of “com...