Pedro García Cuartango: Sanatorio General Varela: in a Remote Place in Castile

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Tuberculosis caused high mortality in Spain until the middle of the last century. Hospitals to cure the disease proliferated throughout the Spanish geography until the 1950s. Many of these establishments closed or were reconverted as the vaccine that ended with the spread of the bacillus of Koch became widespread. This is the case of the General Varela military sanatorium, inaugurated in Quintana del Puente (Palencia) in 1944 and closed in 1955 …