Trudeau, << TROO doh, >> Edward Livingston (1848-1915), was a pioneer in the antituberculosis movement in the United States. Trudeau himself contracted the disease at the age of 25. He became convinced of the need for adequate sanitariums and established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake, New York. It later became the world famous Trudeau Sanitarium.
Trudeau also founded the Saranac Laboratory in 1894, the first U.S. tuberculosis research laboratory. The sanitarium was closed in 1954 because of the great strides made in antituberculosis therapy. Trudeau was born on Oct. 5, 1848, in New York City. He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now part of Columbia University). He died on Nov. 15, 1915.
