PHSC 401 Lecture 11: Consumption and TB
9 Mar 2017
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From consumption to tuberculosis: midterm 15 march, 50 questions, covers week 1-7. Recap: public health measures shaped by, naturalism, religion/moral values, public health strategies, system of plague measures: sanitary cordons, lazarettos, quarantine, etc, vaccination, sanitary movement, how disease is transmitted: contagion/anti-contagion, germs. Consumption and tb: before and after germ theory of disease, turning points: 1860 and 70s: jean-antoine villemin (france) proposed the idea that tb was contagious, 1882: koch isolates bacterium that causes tb, slowly accepted idea of contagion. Age of consumption: romantic era of consumption (end of 18c to 1880s, hereditary wasting disease, consequence of a consumption diathesis, combined w precipitating factor, not stigmatized, hits elite, associated w creativity, good death, not feared, changes after 1882. Tuberculosis: latin word tuber, botanical term for underground structure consisting of a solid rounded outgrowth of a stem that may help new plants rise. Interventions: sanatoria: 1859: first sanatorium in silesia, founded by german physician hermann brehmer, fell ill with tb.
