Shopping at Amazon. Contact Us Rebecca's eInterview with Thomas Dormandy Author of The White Death . Most of us girls thought consumption was as a result of something they ate. I think it's a great pity.
Illnesses shape our lives as much as do material circumstances.
I had no idea there was any other kind of TB than of the lungs. Today the term bohemian is widely used although the original Bohemia inevitably dispersed with the disappearance of a totally self-confident bourgeoisie. Both were destroyed by two world wars. This made the diagnosis of early pulmonary disease possible. He himself died of tuberculosis in 1826 aged 45 as did many of his colleagues.