1910 Hevo Edward Livingston Trudeau § i] Sypistmas 1930 ea 1928 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON OME of our Christmas sym- bols date back for centuries and have been contributed to the lore of the Yuletide hy many different countries. But there is“one which Is only 35 years old. Although it had its genesis In Denmark, America has been principally responsible for its rapidly increasing and wide- spread popularity. That is the Christmas seal, the symbol of health during the Christmas sea- son. The story of the origin of the Christmas seal is a familiar one—how Einar Holboell, a Danish postal clerk, in 1904 conceived the idea of deco rating Christmas letters and packages with a penny seal to raise money for a much-needed hospital in Copenhagen; how his idea was up proved by the Danish royal family and how the generous citizens of Denmark purchased enough seals to finance the bullding of the hospital and to provide a chance for health for many children, The Christmas seal came to America In this way: Jacob Riis, the famous Danish-American author, found one of them on a letter from his homeland. Upon learning the reason for it, the possibility of using the same idea in this country immediately appealed to him. The result was an article In the Outlook magazine which attracted the attention of Miss Emily Bissell of Wilmington, Del, who was trying to raise money for a tuber. culosis pavilion for children In her state and who saw in the sale of Christmas seals a solu. tion to her problem. That was in December, 1007, and $3.000 was raised. The pavilion was bullt. As a result of this first successful =zale, Miss Bissell was able to induce the authorities of the American Red Cross to undertake a nation-wide sale of tuber culosis Christmas stamps in 1808. Influenced by her leadership, women's clubs, religious groups, various publications, as well as local Red Cross chapters gave their support to the sale. By such united and enthusiastic effort more than $135. 000 was raised in the first national sale. From 1907 to 1910, the National Tuberculosis association had been organizing a nationwide warfare against tuberculosis. These ploneers had the support of the foremost scientists, but very few funds for their work. To strengthen the organization's effort, the American Red Cross and the National Tuberculosis association joined forces to conduct the Christmas seal sale to- gether, The Tuberculosis association became the general agent of the Red Cross and assumed the responsibility for the organization, conduct and methods of the seal sale; besides supervis- ing the financial arrangements between national, state and local groups and determining the man- ner in which the funds were spent. The Red Cross gave the undertaking its moral and finan. cial backing, its emblem and its name. The partnership between the American Red Cross and the National Tuberculosis association lasted ten years. During that time the scarlet emblem of the American Red Cross appeared on the annual issues of Christmas seals. In 1919, however, the double-barred cross, international emblem of the anti-tuberculosis campaign and trade mark of the National Tuberculosis asso ciation, was also embodied in the design of the seal, In 1920 the American Red Cross wished to con- centrate its efforts on the annual Roll Call, begun during the World war. Because it did not wish to appeal to the public for funds twice a year, a new arrangement was made whereby the Na tional Tuberculosis association conducted the sale alone and used as the sole emblem on the seals the double-barred cross, Since 1920, the seals have been “Tuberculosis Christmas seals” This year, for the first time in the history of the Christmas seal, it depicts something other than one of the familiar Christmas symbols, Not only does it commemorate the fiftieth anniver sary of the tuberculosis sanitorium movement and the beginning of the first rational study of the disease in the United States but it also hon- ors an American health hero, Dr. Edward Liv. ingston Trudeau. For the picture on the 1034 Christmas seal, designed by Herman Gilesen of New York, an Ohio boy who for a number of years has been drawing illustrations tor children's books and muguzines, is that of “Little Red,” as it Is famil farly called, a one-room cottage at Saranac lake in the heart of the Adirondacks, which Doctor Trudeau built in 1884, just 50 years ago. There oy Memorial to Dr Trudeau at Saranac Lake he began his Intensive observations resulting in the present methods of treatment of the disease, This little cottage was the nucleus from which sprang Trudeau sanatorium, a world-famous cen ter for treatment and research and some GX other sanatoria throughout the country. Incidentally, Doctor Trudeau's first patient was himself, At the time the diagnosis of the disease was equivalent to a sentence of death. No cure was known, and the unfortunate individual con tracting it could only mark time against the io- evitable, jut Livingston Trudeau changed all that. Trudeau was born In New York city on Octo Award ber 5, 1848, the son of a family of doctors, for both his own father and his mother’s father were physicians. His father was also a lover of the outdoors, a friend of the great authority on birds, John James Audubon, whom he accompanied on some of the naturalist’s scientific expeditions and for whom he often drew [Hlustrations of birds and eggs. Young Trudeau inherited his father's love for the woods and this was to play an im. portant part in his later life When Trudeau grew up he was not quite sure what he wanted to do. An older brother had gone into business, bot this did not appeal to him. Finally he decided upon a career at sea and he was about to enter the United States Naval academy when something happened that was to change his whole life. His brother be came very ill of tuberculosis and young Edward gave up his appointment to Annapolis and re. turned home to nurse his brother to whom he was greatly devoted. In those days the infectious nature of tuber culosis was not fully understood and young Tru. deau did pot realize that his devotion to his brother would so seriously affect his own health. Of this Trudeau in his autobiography says: “We occupied the same room and sometimes the same bed. I bathed him and brought his meals to him, and when he felt well enough to go downstairs I carried him up and down on my back and I tried to amuse and cheer him through the long days of fever and sickness. , . . Not only did the doctor never advise any precautions to protect me against infection, but he told me repeatedly never to open the windows, as it would aggravate the cough: and I never did, un- til toward the end my brother was so short of breath that he asked for fresh air. . . . How strange that, after helping stifle my brother and infecting myself through such teaching as was then in vogue, 1 should have lived to save my own life, and that of many others, by the simple expedient of an abundance of fresh air!” After his brother's death, Trudeau realized that he must start again on choosing a career, there being an added incentive in the fact that he had fallen In Jove with a New York girl, Charlotte Beare. He finally decided to become a doctor and In the fall of 1868 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. Miss Beare allowed Trudeau to announce his engagement to her a year before he was gradu ated from medical school. The young couple went abroad after their marriage on June 29, 1871. On the return trip Trudeau began to show symptoms of tuberculosis, but they were not understood as symptoms at that time. He and his wife took a little cottage on Long Island and there spent a very happy year. But Trudeau felt that he would make more progress in his profession if he were in New York. He took a house in the city and two months later he was offered a partnership with a well-known physician, After Trudeau was settled In New York he began to feel tired all the time and was advised to have his lungs ex. amined, The doctor who examined him told him that his left lung was actively tuberculous In those days consumption was considered ab solutely fatal. Trudeau says: “1 pulled myself together, put as good a face on the matter as I could, and escaped from the office, after thanking the doctor for his examina. tion. When 1 got outside, as I stood on Doctor Janeway's stoop, 1 felt stunned. It seemed to me the world had suddenly grown dark. The sun was shining, it Is true, and the street was filled with the rush of noise and traffic, but to me the whole world had lost every vestige of brightness. 1 had consumption--that most fatal of diseases! Had I not seen it in all its horrors In my broth. er's case? It meant death and I had never thought of death before! Was I ready to die? How could 1 tell my wife, whom 1 had just left in unconscious happiness with the Hitie baby In our new home? And my rose-colored dreams of achievement and York! They were all place only exile and maiged udeasu thought that If he had on time to live he would like to spend “peace of the great wilderness.” He decided go to the Adirondacks because of his in May, 1873, after a long. tiresome journey, he and a friend 4 14 He the great forest and the wild life reached Pind Smith's, a famous hunting lodge in the Adirondacks. Mrs Panl Smith's brother car- ried Trudeau upstairs, and put him down on the bed. Trudeau says he made the comforting re mark: “Why, Doctor, you don't weigh no more than a dried Inmb-skin!” But Trudeau didn't mind, for he was so happy to be in his beloved woods once more that he forgot the hardships of the trip Lr'e In the mountain wilderness did wonders for him. In September he returned to the oity with a gain of 15 pounds But be soon lost ground again in his OBght for health and again he went to the Adirondacks to spend the sum- mer. Then he decided to spend the winter there, too, but it was with difficulty that he persuaded Paul Smith to permit him to stay, for so deep rooted was the belief that a consumptive should seek a warm climate and avold colds and storm that Emith did not want to be a party to the consequences If Trudeau subjected himself to the rigors of an Adirondack winter. Trudeau won the argument, however, and stayed. On his nunting trips during that winter the observa tions began which resulted In a complete revolu- tion in the treatment of this disease, “I found,” sald Doctor Trudeau, “that 1 could not walk far enough to stand much chance of seeing any game or getting a shot without feel. ing sick and feverish next day, and this was the first intimation I had of the value of the rest cure. 1 walked very little after this, and my faith in the cure became more and more fully established.” From this time on Trudeau's health improved and it was not long before he began casting about for ways and means to let other sufferers share in the benefits he was deriving He chanced to read of a Silesian sanatorium, Doe. tor Brehmer's, and he began working on the idea of one for the Adirondacks No information was available on the building of sanatoria, but Doctor Trudeau felt that close housing should be avoided and that segregation such as could be secured by the cottage plan was preferable, as by this means abundant fresh air supply could be secured and the irritation of constant close contact with strangers avoided, Friends in New York began contributing funds and “Little Red” was the first cottage built. It consisted of a single room, 14 by 18, with a small porch. It was furnished with two beds and was heated by a wood-burning stove, This littie cottage, how kept as a relic and a museum, was the first sanatorium in the United States where the modern treatment of tuberculosis was given. As Doctor Trudeau's work became known he began receiving the co-operation of leaders in the medical profession, and his sanatorium became an assured success. His single handed fight to regain his own health had resulted in so much good to others that he was looked upon as & leader in his fieldand when the National Tuber. culosis association was formed in 1904 he was unanimously chosen its first president. In the years from 1803 to 1004, when the sana- torium was growing so rapidly, great sorrow they Jost their daughter, Chatte, a beautiful young girl, and their son, Ned, a young man otf great promise, who had just started to practice death, Trudeau says: “Through all these terrible trable gloom.” In spite of his sorrow and failing health, Tro. deau kept his own light burning. It is burning still, although Trudeau died in 1915. The Tro dean sanatorium at Saranac lake is the living symbol of Trudeau. The Trudean spirit is still alive there and it will live as long as the per sonality of this man Is remembered. 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