Published June, 2008
By John E. Baur
Publisher: Huntington Library Press,US
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The nineteenth-century notion that Southern California's sunny climate could cure tuberculosis, asthma, rheumatism, and other diseases triggered a rush of health seekers to the region. This book investigates this migration's effect on the development of Southern California, focusing on boosterism, medicine and pseudomedicine, and sanitariums.

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