Self-proclaimed doctor Linda Hazzard believed starvation could cure disease. In the early 1900s, patients traveled to her Washington sanitarium known as Starvation Heights, where many were subjected to brutal fasting treatments that left them weak, skeletal, and sometimes dead. Join Halley and Blaire as they travel back in time, when medical treatments were deadlier than the disease.
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https://digitalarchives.wa.gov/Collections/TitleInfo/2508
https://www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/person/hazzard-linda-burfield-perry-1867-1938
https://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/olallas-starvation-heights-still-causes-chills-after-a-century-ep-418381772-357167181.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawQEUm5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE3bFB4aTFGYjliOVg3OHhrc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHh-Bs5RwqwI2fNmPWey-BIVYlSsx3k2CnIpyKruOOSwYv2lNZB_kPfgQRkyN_aem_uDBJE6aDnsCpe12ZmyxBMg