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Robichaud, Aldoria, last doctor at the lazaretto1939
Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
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Aldoria Robichaud, doctor, 1905-1989Aldoria Robichaud was born in St. Louis de Kent, New Brunswick in September 1905. He studied medicine in Montreal. He married a hospital nurse, Edith Thibault, in Tracadie, April 28th, 1940.
He arrived in Tracadie as a surgeon for the Hôtel-Dieu in 1934. He practiced his profession for 50 years and greatly contributed to the development of the care offered at the Hôtel-Dieu in Tracadie. He was named as the lazaretto's medical superintendent in 1939 as well as acting as a surgeon for the hospital. He would remain until its closure in 1965. He kept up with new medical develoments for the care of lepers.
Thus, he went to Carville, Louisiana in 1947 and stayed there a few months. Upon his return, he introduced to his patients a new medication used successfully in Carville: sulfoxone sodium(diosone). This treatment was taken orally and needed to be taken over a long period of time. The persons admitted during the last 12 years were cured and released.
Dr. Robichaud died at the Hôtel-Dieu of Tracadie May 5th, 1989.
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