Does consumption exist today?
Roy G Rutter
Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania
Consumption, an early term for tuberculosis, was a dreaded disease of the lung—contagious and often fatal. The afflicted were advised by doctors to move to an arid place like Arizona. Others were directed to the mountains of Colorado to partake of the clear mountain air—a mistake since the low oxygen levels put even greater stress on the lungs and body (as “Doc” Holliday discovered).
Tuberculosis is treated today b
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