Then if this is true ...it is not TB...because TB is not caused by a virus....It is a bacillus...When I was a young nurse many yrs ago.(I have been a nurse nearly 50 yrs...still working)..the old nurses who had worked in TB specialty hospitals would use the word consumption for TB at times...and I was apparently under the impression that was the word they used for TB. Guess I had better do some more research...betty At 02:05 PM 11/6/2000 -0500, you wrote: >CONSUMPTION IS A VIRUAL INFECTION OF THE LUNGS. ALSO IF YOU RUN INTO FLAUX, >IT IS THE SAME AS DISENTARY (MIS-SPELLED). THEY HAD DIFFERENT NAMES FOR >DISEASES THEN INCLUDING TB.

Betty, thought you might like to know that my mother, who will be 93 November 17th, and whose mother was a BRIDGES, entered nurses' training in 1925 at Baptist Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. She worked until she was in her 70's. Her class was the first class to graduate from Baptist in LR, I believe. She and her sister were both RNs. Mildred