HLTB21H3 : HLTA01- Chapter 13
13 Jan 2013
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Consumption having the following features: nostalgia, depression, and excessive sexual indulgences: more commonly known today as tuberculosis (tb) Tb thought to produce spells of euphoria, increased appetite, exacerbated sexual desire. Imagined to be an aphrodisiac, and to confer extraordinary powers of seduction. People who suffered for tb in western europe were thought to be beautiful and erotic: extreme thinness, long neck and hands, shining eyes, pale skin and red skins. Painful death drowning in one"s in own blood. Never understood that it was a chronic disease, so it was highly romanticized. Description of consumption: incessant coughing (made talking and eating almost impossible and breathing painful), weight loss that prevented walking, and pain that required opium and whisky to ameliorate. Pulmonary tb tuberculosis of the lungs. Lunger": most familiar with this type, can run an acute source, causing extensive destruction within a few months, can wax and wane with periods of remission.
