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The disease is not limited to human characters, but can help to achieve grim social realism in a novel. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle portrays tuberculosis as common among cattle reaching the meat-packing plants of Chicago. Sinclair wrote that "men welcomed tuberculosis in the cattle they were feeding, because it made them fatten more quickly".
Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [1] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. [1] Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. [1]
In this cartoon, the British satirist James Gillray caricatured a scene at the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras, showing cowpox vaccine being administered to frightened young women, and cows emerging from different parts of people's bodies. The cartoon was inspired by the controversy over inoculating against the dreaded disease ...
Tuberculosis cases in Britain, numbering around 117,000 in 1913, had fallen to around 5,000 in 1987, but cases rose again, reaching 6,300 in 2000 and 7,600 cases in 2005. [126] Due to the elimination of public health facilities in New York and the emergence of HIV, there was a resurgence of TB in the late 1980s. [127]
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Charlotte Brontë's death in 1855 was stated at the time as having been due to tuberculosis, but there is some controversy over this today. Clarissa Brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927; Charles Brockden Brown; Charles Farrar Browne; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861; Jean de Brunhoff
Here’s a nostalgic look at classic cartoons that once ruled the airwaves. From classics in the 1950s and '60s to more recent favorites from the 1980s and '90s, these toons are sure to bring back ...
Not to be confused with List of tuberculosis cases. The following is a list of notable people who have died due to tuberculosis. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2023) 641: Heraclius Constantine – Byzantine Emperor, aged 29 1485: Anne Neville - Queen of England, aged 28 1506: Henry VII of England – King of England, aged 52 1537: Madeleine of Valois ...