Tuberculosis in 19th Century

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" While tuberculosis has afflicted mankind for thousands of years, it is truly a disease of civilization, first emerging in plague proportions in the 18th and 19th centuries (Kiple 136-137). It is an illness primarily of the urban poor, and its spread is correlated with urbanization, industrialization and immigration patterns of the modern age.

Tuberculosis in the lungs has historically been known as consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, graveyard cough, and decline (Smith 2-50). Symptoms include lassitude, irregular appetite, wasting, flatulence, irregular pulse, night sweats, severe nasal congestion, chest rales and cough, often bloody (haemoptysis). There is always fever. The disease can affect joints or lodge in spine and brain tissue, where it causes tubercular meningitis. When affecting other areas of the body.."

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