The magic mountain revisited: History of the Madanapalle TB Sanatorium

  • 15/08/2008

  • Economic and Political Weekly

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