Tuberculosis may seem like a historic disease: A scourge of overcrowded, unsanitary European cities of the 19th century, a plot point in La Bohème or Jane Eyre, and an inspiration for mournful ...

In 18th and 19th century Europe, the disease was romanticized as an affliction of poets and artists. ... Green argues convincingly that 21st century tuberculosis is caused not by bacteria but by ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is mostly forgotten, but certainly not gone. We often associate TB with bygone times. In 1882, the consumption, as it was often called then, killed one in seven people in Europe ...

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection John Green. Crash Course, $28 (208p) ISBN 978-0-525-55657-2 ...

In tandem with the pervasive threat of TB, the curative power of nature promoted by mid-19th-century writers grew into an interpretation of American wilderness areas as therapeutic in the 1870s ...

A bloody 19th-century health craze almost drove these creatures extinct. European medicinal leeches were famous for their popular purpose: treatment for everything from cancer to mental illness.