In 1900, Louisville, Kentucky, was over much of its population victims of "white plague," who was also known as "consumption." This condition, now called tuberculosis, was absolutely contagious and had no known cure. Those affected by the disease were sent to a hospital in the hills in 1910, an institution with only forty beds Waverly. It soon became evident, however, that this place was inadequate. The state donated land and nearly eleven million dollars to build a new facility that could accommodate the 130 cases who sought entry into the hospital.
The hospital, known as Waverly Hills, was opened in 1926 and considered the most advanced hospital of tuberculosis in the country. If a patient had any chance of surviving the disease, Waverly Hills was the place to come for treatment. Of course, treatment in those days was primitive at best, meaning that many simply came here to die. In those days it was thought that the best cure for tuberculosis was a lot of nutritional food, and plenty of fresh air. Many patients came to Waverly and really were healed and came to be well enough to join society again. For others not as fortunate, Waverly was the place where they always would. Records have been lost, but it is estimated that more than 63,000 people died in Waverly. At the height of the epidemic of tuberculosis, a patient is disclosed that when he died.
Treatments for white death:
The doctors and nurses volunteered their lives to try to find a cure for this disease. Many of them lived and died there with patients.
treatments sometimes a bit excessive, but only at that time were:
-lungs exposed to ultraviolet light to attempt to stop the spread of bacteria.
-patients on the roof or in open areas in the upper deck to take in air and light of sol.invierno, Summer, snow ... (thought that fresh air was a possible cure for lung)
-Hydrotherapy, and "Nieveterapia" where caught pneumonia, for exposure in water and snow all day. The photographs show many people dying literally covered in snow for them outside with the hopes that their lungs were expanded with the clean country air.
-Balloons were surgically implanted in the lungs and then filled with air to try to expand too often with disastrous results.
-Pneumothorax was a procedure that consisted of deflating the infected area of \u200b\u200bthe lung for a period of time and then let it heal alone.
-La thoracoplasty was a very extreme surgical procedure where the chest was opened and then the strings of the lung and seven ribs were removed. The opening was then closed up with the idea that the lungs would then be free to expand further and allow more oxygen into the lungs. This bloody procedure was attempted only as a last resort because less than 5% of patients survived.
-electroshock
So high was the mortality rate that doctors began to transport the bodies of a rail-driven tunnel to emerge on the far side of the building. This "body chute" or tunnel of death, was originally used as input for employees and delivering groceries. However, doctors did not want to see how many patients went dead the building, or how many times a day came the hearses. Thought to do the number of deaths that came after a day, depress and impede the recovery process.
paranormal:
Because the procedures and experiments were performed at Waverly Hills, (some were fiction, but others were real), and the number of souls who are due to the large number of dead was one of the more energetic sites ghostly, more popular, and most frightening paranormal events in the world.
paranormal events are almost always sighted:
-Children ghosts in the solarium of the 3 rd floor.
-A little girl who plays with visitors
-A boy playing with a leather ball that disappears in the eyes of visitors.
decomposed
-A girl who died in the snow.
-an older woman who asks for "help"
-cooking food odors
-The 2 nurses who committed suicide in the nurses room 502, a get pregnant by a doctor, and one that could be stabbed rumored by a crazy patient or to jump out the window of 502, or hanged himself. It is believed he hanged himself, and they say that patients had to pass by it until it fell to take your medicines. No one has seen, but if they sense fear when you enter the 502.
-lights that turn on their own without having energy in the building.
-Doors slamming.
-Cart
funeral where they took the dead people go from one place to another.
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