Assertion: tuberculosis | /r/HasProperty | referred in medical writings of europe
Facets:
value: into the industrial age
type: TEMPORAL
value: as phthisis
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the medical writings of Europe through the Middle Ages and well into the industrial age, tuberculosis was referred to as phthisis, the “white plague,” or consumption—all in reference to the progressive wasting of the victim’s health and vitality as the disease took its inexorable course.