Spain's wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

He was a victim of tuberculosis—and a target of the vampire panic that swept through New England. ... Inside, a 19th-century man’s femur bones had been removed and crossed over his chest.

February 17, 2022 The Phantom Plague - How Tuberculosis Shaped History. Journalist Vidya Krishnan looked at the history of tuberculosis from the 19th century to today.

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.