HLTB21H3 Chapter 13: Chapter 13 study guide
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Lead to hunchback and also affect the skin and the kidneys: tb of adrenal cortex destroys the adrenal function and results in. Addison"s disease: microbes that cause tb are called mycobacteria; their free-living relatives inhabit the soil and water, have a protective cell wall, r ich in unusla waxy lipids, such as mycolic acid and polysaccharides, m. tuberculosis. Believed the disease was due to evil air, did not consider it contagious: aristotle suggested that it might be contagious and it was due to bad and heavy breath, during middle ages, a feudal system developed. 1780: cause for the r ise in tb may have been the demographic shift from rural to urban living, some said that tb was brought to the americas by european explorers and settlers. In urban centers of new york and boston consumption was regarded as a jewish disease or the tailors disease. In 1865 jean antoine villemin transmitted tuberculosis to rabbits.
