ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mycobacterium Bovis, The White Plague, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
17 Jul 2018
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"where youth grows pale, and spectre-thing and dies" - john kents. Edward munch"s mother died of tuberculosis when he was five years old: the dead mother - 1899; a portrait of his deceased mother. The white plague is just as indiscriminate as the black plague. Spinal lesions and kyphosis, usually in lower back - "pott"s disease: deformity in the lower back. Skeletal evidence for at least 6000 years (ie. 3000 - 5000 bc) Term dates back to 1834 despite the disease existing for about 6000 years. Mycobacterium tuberculosis: well-adapted to human lung, small, slow-growing, rod-shaped, grows in tight parallel strands, waxy covering, produces small amounts of toxin, buried deep in tissue. Was afflicting people long before the black death. Primary infection doesn"t necessarily lead to death; it can stay dormant for a very long time. You can be infected and have it never be expressed as an acute infection.
