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Welch Spring Hospital Ruins

Akers, MO

Ruins of a stone hospital stand beside Welch Spring, where an early twentieth-century doctor promoted cave air as a treatment for respiratory illness. The failed medical venture left an unusually photogenic wall directly beside a major Ozark spring.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/places/welch-spring.htm

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