The Muncie Sanitarium: A local business during the Progressive Era
“Medicated, Electric, Turkish and Massage Baths. Treatment on Reasonable Terms. We Cure Diseases of the Head, Throat, Lungs, Heart, Liver, Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys, and other organs. All Diseases of Women, General and Nervous Debility, Headache, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Piles, Serofula, Catarrh, Etc. Diseases of the Skin, Blood, Nerves, Spine, Bones, Joints, Eye, Ear, Tumors, and Paralysis. D.E. Cripe, Medical Director. MUNCIE SANITARIUM, 207 North High Street, Muncie, Indiana.” Such was a Sept. 17, 1899 advertisement I recently stumbled across in the Muncie Morning News. I didn’t know of...
Source: thestarpress.com
