#tubercolosis

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Tuberculosis is a contagious disease that infects a person's lungs. This is caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis and can be fatal if left untreated.

https://trusted-medications.com/knowing-tuberculosis/

Pneumonia, Bronchitis, and Tuberculosis are common types of lower respiratory tract infections. It infects the airways and the air sacs affecting your respiratory functions. https://trusted-medications.com/lower-respiratory-tract-infection/ 

Pneumonia, Bronchitis, and Tuberculosis are common types of lower respiratory tract infections. It infects the airways and the air sacs affecting your respiratory functions.

https://trusted-medications.com/lower-respiratory-tract-infection/

The World Health Organization has reported around 1.5 million deaths from tuberculosis in the year 2020. Many of these deaths are due to late diagnosis and medical interventions. Learn the causes and symptoms of tuberculosis to properly prepare for this disease. https://rx2go.com/tuberculosis/

Puskesmas Wania Catat 22 Kasus TB Hingga Maret 2021

Penanggung Jawab (PJ.) TB Puskesmas Wania, Erni Fitmawati. (Foto: Anis_APN) Timika, APN – Puskesmas Wania Mencatat 22 Kasus TB dari bulan Januari – Pertengahan Maret 2021 yang ada di wilayah kerjanya. Penanggung Jawab (Pj.) Tubercolosis (TB) Puskesmas Wania, Erni Fitmawati menerangkan bahwa sejauh ini pihak puksesmas selalu melakukan penjaringan suspeknya masih sama seperti sebelum pandemi…

In this coloured etching (1810), T. Rowlandson comically illustrated an overweight man “Dropsy” wooing a tall ill woman “Consumpted”.

Today it sounds bizarre, but pulmonary tuberculosis looks in women was considered very attractive in the upper class. 

The pale skin, red cheeks and ethereal thinness were the characteristics of the femme fatal, like Marguerite Gautier in La Dame aux camellias written by Alexandre Dumas (Violetta in la Traviata composed by Giuseppe Verdi).

Likewise, the illness was improving intellectual skills and sensitivity in men, making them more “interesting” a creative, like in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

Tuberculosis in XIX was a tremendous, often fatal, illness until Robert Koch invented Tuberculin in 1890. 

Romanticising about TB is here brilliantly described by Susan Sontag:

“Gradually, the tubercular look, which symbolized an appealing vulnerability, a superior sensitivity, became more and more the ideal look for women—while great men of the mid-and late nineteenth century grew fat, founded industrial empires, wrote hundreds of novels, made wars, and plundered continents. One might reasonably suppose that this romanticization of TB was a merely literary transfiguration of the disease and that in the era of its great depredations TB was probably thought to be disgusting—as cancer is now. Surely everyone in the nineteenth century knew about, for example, the stench in the breath of the consumptive person. (Describing their visit to the dying Murger, the Goncourts note "the odour of rotting flesh in his bedroom.").” 

Illness as Metaphor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978, Chapter4, page 29

 Resources:

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/tuberculosis-a-fashionable-disease/

https://www.thecollector.com/tuberculosis-art/