Consumption: TB or not TB?

Consumption: TB or not TB?

Consumption wasn't just a disease - it was a lifestyle. Afflicting millions with its debilitating symptoms, consumption became synonymous with romance and tragedy in the popular imagination. Join Clara and Sabrina as they explore the morbid fascination with illness, and the macabre allure of looking sickly and dying. So grab your handkerchiefs to cough dramatically into, and prepare to confront the dark allure of consumption in the 1800s.


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SOURCES:

Science Museum - Tuberculosis : A Fashionable Disease?


Lockport Journal - ABANDONED HISTORY: Sanitariums and sanatoriums of Niagara County


Wikipedia - Sanatorium


Welcome Collection - The history of sanatoriums and surveillance


Medical Records at the Archives of Ontario - Tuberculosis Records


CDC - History of World TB Day


Wikipedia - Tuberculosis


VL McBeath - Victorian Era Consumption


Taconic Biosciences - Mountain Cottages, Fresh Air, and TB Research

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