I always thought I’d missed a lot not having been born in the 19th century. From The Topeka Capital-Journal: ...

Cases of the 19th century disease are continuing to rise after peaking last year - prompting officials to declare a "serious ...

explaining that tuberculosis once killed rich and poor indiscriminately, but after the late-19th-century advent of germ theory, it became a “disease of the poor and marginalized.” Green ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some ... He identified the bacteria that cause anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera. Koch was very thorough. To isolate the anthrax ...

The tuberculosis epidemic also led to the ... labeled the "the revolt against the whisker." Up until the late 19th century, spitting in public was considered acceptable social behavior in America ...

A rare patient has made it possible for researchers to prove that vitamin D—the "sun vitamin"—helps the body fight tuberculosis. Most people probably associate tuberculosis with a leaky loft ...

Once a feared and incurable disease in Japan, patients with tuberculosis fell for the ... mortality rates in Japan from the last half of 19th century to the first half of the 20th century.

In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn’t live past the age of 5. While overall child mortality was somewhat lower in the U.K., the rate remained near ...