Obviously as Waverly was a hospital, the sound of screaming patients is thought to emanate from the long-empty rooms. You've got your old standards, like unexplained footsteps and the slamming of doors, weird noises, and so on. As LiveScience explains, various ghost hunters and spook chasers have reported encountering all sorts of creepy phenomena within the halls of the long-abandoned hospital. Despite its being founded on the principles of feeling good all the time no matter what your lungs are doing, it's still a big spooky building where thousands of people died before being wheeled through a body chute when their Marilyn Manson surgery went bad. Let's be honest: it's no surprise that Waverly Hills Sanatorium is considered one of the most haunted places not only in Kentucky, but in the whole United States. Built on low, swampland, the area was a perfect breeding ground for.
Patients who were unlikely to survive this procedure tried to maximize rest to their lungs by lying on the side most affected by lesions, restricting the movement of the diseased lung naturally with posture and gravity. In 1900, Louisville, Kentucky had one of the highest tuberculosis death rates in America. During its 50-year operation several patients have gone through its. When it opened it originally accommodated just about 50 patients but soon expanded to hold almost 500 patients. It houses thousands of patients who were suffering from the then fatal illness tuberculosis. Lining up plans in Greensburg Whether youre a local, new in town, or just passing through, youll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest. These included perhaps most famously artificial pneumothorax, which involved blowing air into either the lung itself or the cavity between lungs in order to artificially collapse the diseased portion of the lung, allowing it to rest and (theoretically) allowing the lesions caused by the tuberculosis to heal. Waverly Hills Sanatorium officially opened on the 26 th of July 1910. It opened in 1910 as a two-story hospital. So while it's true that the most common treatments were exposure to sunlight, bed rest, healthy foods, and fresh air, the Waverly Hills Sanatorium Memorial records that several other methods were applied to patients, including surgical methods that were cutting edge for the time, but that might sound barbaric now. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a former sanatorium located in southwestern Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky.
While it's nice to imagine Waverly's philosophy of making things as pleasant as possible for their patients suffering from tuberculosis worked, the fact is, there's a limit to how pleasant you can make life for someone who's constantly coughing up bloody mucus.
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