372 A HISTORY OF NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION 



tuberculosis again made their appearance, and at the completion 

 of a year Dr. Baldwin decided to go to Saranac Lake and place 

 himself under the care of Dr. Trudeau, where he became his 

 assistant and his close associate. 



The entrance of Dr. Baldwin into the Trudeau Sanatorium 

 meant so much both to Dr. Trudeau and Dr. Baldwin, to medical 

 science and the tuberculosis movement in this country and 

 throughout the civilized world, that it is of historic interest to 

 quote here what Edward L. Trudeau has to say in his auto- 

 biography concerning this episode: 



"In December, 1892, a slender and pale young man rang my door-bell 

 one morning and told me he was a doctor, had contracted tuberculosis, and 

 wanted to go to the Sanitarium. Little did I know then how much the coming 

 of this strange young man would mean to me personally, to my work, to Sara- 

 nac Lake, and to the world at large! He told me his name was Edward R. 

 Baldwin, that he was from New Haven; and when I asked what made him 

 think he had tuberculosis, he quite floored me by his answer: that he had used 

 his microscope and knew he had it. Truly Koch's teaching was beginning to 

 bring practical results. I admitted him to the Sanitarium. 



"Through many long years of friendly fellowship, through many long years 

 of work side by side, through many long years of physical misery and suffering, 

 my debt to Dr. Baldwin has steadily grown, until it has become a debt which 

 I can never hope to repay but by affection and gratitude; a coin in which 

 many debts, I find, are paid to him, because it is a coin he cannot possibly 

 refuse to accept. Riches, fame, and praise he scorns, but he cannot escape the 

 heritage of affection and gratitude he so unconsciously and abundantly calls 

 forth." 



Dr. Baldwin took a deep interest in the laboratory work and 

 Dr. Trudeau affectionately writes of this: 



"Dr. Baldwin in those days, of course, knew even less than I did about the 

 new science of bacteriology, and I gladly taught him all I knew; and as gladly 

 does he teach me now the latest advances in a branch of medical science in 

 which he is an expert and an acknowledged authority. Many happy hours 

 did we spend working in the laboratory together; and now that I cannot work 

 with him any more, he brings to my bedside the latest literature, and tells me 

 of the work he and the others are doing. . . . Until Dr. Baldwin's arrival 

 in Saranac Lake I had had no one to discuss my work with, and I had no help 

 of any kind but the manual assistance of a poor Irish patient of mine." 



With Dr. Trudeau's illness and ultimate death Dr. Baldwin 

 proved himself a worthy successor to the great physician. Al- 



