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The dramatic story of tuberculosis is told here in a straightforward and accessible style. It presents the stories of persons connected with the disease, either as victims, or as those who made contributions to our knowledge of it; in addition to these personal accounts, the book unfolds the history and explains the pathogenesis of TB. The re-emergence of tuberculosis as a major American public health hazard has focused much attention on this ancient disease. This book offers a comprehensive account of the disease from prehistoric times through to the present day, detailing the attempts to eradicate it completely. Its four separate sections (the spread of tuberculosis; its infectious nature; susceptibility to it; and methods of treatment) are linked through the device of presenting individuals particular experience of the disease, whether as as victims, or as those who made contributions to our knowledge of it; in between these vignettes, the book unfolds the history and explains the pathogenesis of TB. A detailed medical glossary completes the volume.
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Frontispiece. A patient with tuberculosis being examined by his physician in about 1900. Little was available in the way of treatment for persons afflicted with tuberculosis at that time; the fortunate might find beds in sanatoria. Even with the best of care, about forty percent of them would die of their disease. Photograph courtesy of the American Lung Association.
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Captain of Death
The Story of Tuberculosis
Thomas M. Daniel
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Copyright 1997 Thomas M. Daniel
All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.
First published 1997 Reprinted in hardback and paperback 1999
University of Rochester Press 668 Mt. Hope Avenue Rochester, NY 14620 USA
and at P.O. Box 9 Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF United Kingdom
ISBN 1-878822-96-9 (Hardback) ISBN 1-58046-070-4 (Paperback)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Daniel, Thomas M. Captain of death : the story of tuberculosis / Thomas M. Daniel. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-878822-96-9 (alk. paper) 1. TuberculosisHistory. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Tuberculosishistory. WF 11.1 D184c 1997] RC311.D25 1997 616.9'95'009dc21 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 97-29886 CIP
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Designed and typeset by Cornerstone Composition Services Printed in the United States of America This publication is printed on acid-free paper
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For my wife Janet, whom I love dearly. She has encouraged me and supported me not only through the writing of this book but through a career devoted to the study of tuberculosis. And she is my best friend.
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Pray, of what disease did Mr. Badman die? For I now perceive we are come up to his death.
I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together, to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the foul distemper in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.
The Life and Death of Mr. Badman John Bunyan1
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1
PART I. Consumption: Tuberculosis Through the Ages
1 An Egyptian Girl; A Peruvian Boy
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2 Kos, Alexandria, and Rome
17
3 The Middle Ages and Beyond
22
4 The Relentless Tide
28
5 The Hope for Eradication
41
6 The Failed Conquest
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PART II. The Great White Plague: The Infectious Nature of Tuberculosis
7 Etude
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8 Animalcula
69
9 Robert Koch and the Tubercle Bacillus
74
10 A Distinctly Preventable Disease
87
11 Heroes
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PART III. Of Languor and Lymphocytes: Susceptibility and Resistance to Tuberculosis.
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