tuberculosis

Conflict and resentments break out in a small Adirondack town in the fall of 1916 when Miles Fairchild, a wealthy resident living in a "cure cottage" while being treated for tuberculosis, decides to start a discussion group with patients--mostly poor European immigrants--confined in the state-run sanatorium.

For many years, patients with tuberculosis had to live in sanitoriums to stop the spread of infection and treatments included removing ribs and lungs. This book explores the history of the infectious disease known as the white death.

Provides the history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, and the birth of medical science through the work of Robert Koch, a German doctor who discovered that bacteria caused tuberculosis; and discusses how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes, applied Koch's methods of deductive reasoning in his investigations.

A book for young adults exploring the history and evolution of medical technology.

When Tamara's mother is diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanatorium, Tamara is forced to care for her two younger siblings and their absentee father.

This book explores some of history's most gruesome diseases. Readers will be enthralled by the history and science of terrible plagues and the bacteria, bugs, bad hygiene, and rats responsible.

In 1940, thirteen-year-old Evvy Hoffmeister and her newfound friends struggle to get well at Loon Lake Sanatorium, where they are being treated for tuberculosis.

Provides information on the history, transmission, symptoms, screening, and treatment of tuberculosis.

Explores the history of humankind's battle with tuberculosis, how it has been treated or diagnosed throughout history, and what modern medicine is doing to try to find a cure.

Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption--and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad.