Antique Cabinet Card Photograph. Identified as Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt. He is credited with being the visionary doctor who promoted the dry climate benefits for treatment of various diseases. Photo by T.C. Moon studio in Tilton, New Hampshire. Note: Bernard was the son of Walter C. Wyatt and Clara R. Thorp. A cabinet photo of Walter C. Wyatt was also entered into our inventory (sold separately.) Measures approximately 6 x 8 including mount. Condition: This is an original photograph, not a copy or reproduction. It is in excellent condition. Comments: From the Tucson Medical Center's TCM News: Years before Tucson Medical Center was born, a world-renowned health care institution - the Desert Sanatorium - grew on this remote site out in the desert, four miles east of Tucsons city limits. The Desert Sanatorium grew out of the vision of one man: Bernard Langdon Wyatt, M.D. He pursued his interest in treating tuberculosis and other ailments with Arizonas sunlight and clean air, creating the Desert San in 1925. Why did he choose Tucson as the site of his institution? As Wyatt later wrote in a single long vivid sentence, his choice was "the result of studying the strange potency of that Arizona mesa land, a continuation of the Sonoran desert across the Mexican border, where for years in increasing numbers have poured invalids and semi-invalids, particularly old people, eager to luxuriate in warm, dry air, half a mile above sea level and in a baking sun whose blazing light has set countless artists crazy in the endeavor to put on canvas the hard outlines and color of the southwest desert scenery. Dr. Wyatt was the author of "Chronic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Affections," "The Limitations of Heliotherapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis" and "Chronic Arthritis and Fibrositis: Diagnosis and Treatment." He was born in 1883 and died in 1961. He is buried in Glendale, California at Forest Lawn Cemetery.