HLTB15H3 Lecture Notes - Gram-Positive Bacteria, Drug Resistance, Genetic Disorder
6 Nov 2012
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Consumption was characterized in 1853 as nostalgia, depression and excessive sexual indulgence. Consumption is more commonly known as tb (white plague) Tb was a chronic infectious disease, it was romanticized. In 1800s tb peaked in western europe, tb was considered to be beautiful and exotic. Tb of the lungs is called pulmonary tb is the form of the disease that we are most familiar with. When tb is localized in the lungs it can run an acute course, causing severe destruction, so called galloping consumption. Tb can also infect the lungs and intestine and larynx and sometimes the lymph nodes of the neck are affected producing a swelling called scrofula. Tb can produce the fusion of the vertebrae and the deformation of the spine called pott"s disease. This may lead to hunchback and call also affect the skin and the kidney. Tb of the adrenal cortex destroys adrenal functions and results in addison"s disease.
