# 3432A - 2008 76c Distinguished Americans: Edward Trudeau
76¢ Edward Trudeau
Distinguished Americans
City: Washington, DC
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd
Printing Method: Lithographed and Engraved
Perforations: 11.25 x 11
Color: Multicolored
Happy Birthday Edward Trudeau
Born into a family of physicians, Trudeau was named after statesman Edward Livingston. Livingston helped draft the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825 and was US secretary of State from 1831 to 1833.
When he was 20, Edward joined the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, graduating in 1871. Two years later, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Expecting to die, Trudeau traveled to the Adirondack Mountains, where he had earlier enjoyed hunting and fishing vacations. At Paul Smith’s Saranac Lake Hotel, Trudeau read about the “cold air” method used by European doctors in the Alps to treat tuberculosis.
When his health improved, Trudeau got a new lease on life. In 1876, he moved to Saranac Lake and opened a medical practice. In 1882, he read an article about Prussian doctor Hermann Brehmer and his success treating tuberculosis in cold, clear mountain air. This inspired him to open the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium. After a fire destroyed his small laboratory, in 1894 he organized the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis (now called the Trudeau Institute), the United States’ first laboratory dedicated to the study of tuberculosis.
76¢ Edward Trudeau
Distinguished Americans
City: Washington, DC
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd
Printing Method: Lithographed and Engraved
Perforations: 11.25 x 11
Color: Multicolored
Happy Birthday Edward Trudeau
Born into a family of physicians, Trudeau was named after statesman Edward Livingston. Livingston helped draft the Louisiana Civil Code of 1825 and was US secretary of State from 1831 to 1833.
When he was 20, Edward joined the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, graduating in 1871. Two years later, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Expecting to die, Trudeau traveled to the Adirondack Mountains, where he had earlier enjoyed hunting and fishing vacations. At Paul Smith’s Saranac Lake Hotel, Trudeau read about the “cold air” method used by European doctors in the Alps to treat tuberculosis.
When his health improved, Trudeau got a new lease on life. In 1876, he moved to Saranac Lake and opened a medical practice. In 1882, he read an article about Prussian doctor Hermann Brehmer and his success treating tuberculosis in cold, clear mountain air. This inspired him to open the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium. After a fire destroyed his small laboratory, in 1894 he organized the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis (now called the Trudeau Institute), the United States’ first laboratory dedicated to the study of tuberculosis.