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2 unusual facts about Martha Reben


Martha Reben

When she, too, became ill she was sent to cure in Pennsylvania, the Catskills and finally, in 1927, to Saranac Lake, New York where Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau was having considerable success treating the disease.

Weller Pond

Weller Pond was made famous by Martha Reben's The Healing Woods, a memoir of her experiences camping on its shore in 1931 while attempting a self-cure of tuberculosis.



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