The Solarium Cell

Once the most expensive prison in the world, Eastern State Penitentiary opened in 1829. In the decades before widespread use of antibiotics, inmates with TB would be submerged in cold water in hydrotherapy rooms and exposed to sunlight in solarium cells, which you can see in Cellblock 3. Most medical theory (of 100+ years ago) believed that fresh air, sunlight, special diet and moderate to mild exercise was the best treatment. Today doctors would not recommend exercise with tuberculosis.

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