The white death

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This work provides an account of the complex social, artistic, and natural history of tuberculosis along with a chronicle of the medical profession at its best and worst. For the Victorians, who elevated illness and morbidity into art forms, the victims of TB were the ultimate in pale and interesting, not least because they were so often young and gifted. The roll call of genius reads like an anthem for doomed youth: Keats, Chopin, the Brontes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Chekhov, Orwell, to name but a few.

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