Trudeau, Edward Livingston (1848–1915)

US physician. In 1873, ill with tuberculosis, he went to the Adirondack Mountains (New York), where he recuperated for seven years. Remaining there to practise medicine and study tuberculosis, he founded the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium (later famous as the Trudeau Sanitarium) at Saranac Lake (1884). In 1894 he established the Saranac Laboratory, the first such to study tuberculosis and where he was the first American physician to conduct experiments for tuberculosis immunity.

Trudeau was born in New York City. He switched to medicine from the navy after nursing his brother who died of tuberculosis (1868), graduating from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1871. He died of tuberculosis, as did his daughter before him. The Trudeau Sanitarium closed in 1957, thanks to new antituberculosis therapy which his contributions helped to advance.