ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sputum, Homeostasis, Aphrodisiac
31 Aug 2016
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Access to reasonable social and medical programs. As pale as an angel of consumption yet blood of youth runs fast in her veins . This plague produces no obvious repulsive lesions. Blood in the sputum blended metaphorically with menstrual blood. Many were young adults - attractive, pale, delicate. Despite terrible symptoms, tb gained a romantic image in the 19thc. Idea that tb was a disease of passion. Af iction of the reckless and sensual - consuming passion . Associated ideal of feminine beauty as exempli ed by writings of edgar allen poe. To be tb (in appearance) was desirable and fashionable among the elite. Women stopped using rouge, drank lemon juice and vinegar to spoil appetites. Camille dies coughing up blood: tb seems a romantic, if tragic, way to go. God does not want me to live any longer". Fallen women becomes pure by her disease.
