maureen ambrogi <[email protected]> wrote:I think TB came because the people of that day were of limited income....And the diet gave the person the ailments of the time......TB was diagnosed as a tapering of the body....The person just dwindled in life.....TB usually affected the lungs...It is a airborne disease....Quite a few people got it because of the economy...It is contagious disease...because of the coughing and the transmitting of airborne disease.....Maureen....there is much more about it... Miles Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: Another thing I have been told about consumption and 19th century medicine is that they had a poor understanding that tuberculosis is a long-term disease. They'd only identify it as consumption in the final stages. The patient could have had it for years, but it would be called bronchitis (apparently the case for George H. Whitney) or asthma (as in the case of my great grandmother Flora (Whitney) Wright's brother-in-law, Oren Wright, also a Civil War vet). ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.nexet.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com