Tuberculosis
TUBERCULOSIS
The history of tuberculosis proves that it was an ancient deadly disease.
Ancient skeletons prove that T.B. has been around since the beginning of mank.ind. The disease leaves large holes in the bones. It also causes ulcers on the ends of arms and legs.
Many names have been given to T.B.White Plague got its name from the pale skin of caucaHons. It was a~low death compared to Bubonic Plague and Asiatic Cholera. Lungers, aff~~d the lungs and at consumption, the wasting away of the body, was seen near death with a high consuming fever.
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There were many strange treatments for T.B. In Anci~t' Rome people would
eat the flesh of a female donkey in a broth. They would also swallow "ashes of pig dung mixed in raisin wine." In the 1820's victims of T.B. wotid rub sulferic acid on their chests after breathing in warm air. The 1840's had a costly and expensive brown sugar solution as a treatment. In the 1880's a lethal remedy, poi'tonous hallucenogenis was tried. It was ma,de up of alcohol, strychnine, chloroform, morphine, cyanide, and mercury. Another remedy was sucking the milk from the breast of a woman who had just given birth. They also let the blood flow from the arm hoping for a cure. Surg'ery was also a. form of treatment. They would inject to collapse a lung, crush nerves, inject solids, remove ribs and cut out injected tissue or organs. i'10st considered rest at home, to be the best treatment.
Sanitoriums were another form of treatment. It was conidered the best chance for recovery. By isolating the infection they could prevent spreading the disease. Some of the symptoms of the infected patients were; red spots on a pillow, coughing, sneezing, pale skin, loss of weight, sweats, red chetlks, sunken eyes, and palms of hands hot and dry.
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The life in sanitoriums were very strict. 'No talking, rest only, some exercise which depended on the sanitorium, pure...
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