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>>16149130
If you don't look at the history of "how [insert disease of the past]" was originally treated they you don't get the Idea why it was so deadly.
Not only was the "cause" of Tuberculosis vague and but most likely industrial poisoning by toxic chemical fumes.
But also they were unable to differenciate properly between "peunmonia", "bronchitis" and "tuberculosis".
> https://pmj.bmj.com/content/1/3/33
in the late 1800s and early 1900s they gave pelple toxic and extremly invasive therapies, which killed them.
They gave people for example "Shiloh's Consumption Cure".
Which was Alcohol, morphine and chloroform and tar.

Not only that, they did "Plobages" on a lot of people on SUSPICION of tuberculosis.
They didn't had serious "diagnostic tools" for that.
They just, filled the lungs with acrylic balls...

Doctors loved to tell every thing is "tuberculosis". Because then they could "experiment" on the patient. And "find a cure" and become "heroes" and had shizophrenic paranoia to not "diagnose the worst possibility".

Quote from 01 December 1925 Postgraduate Medical Journal:

"From the physician's
point of view it is easier and safer to give a positive
diagnosis in a doubtful case. If pulmonary tuberculosis is diagnosed and the patient recovers, credit
is given to the doctor. Even if the diagnosis is
wrong"

>>15861580
>>what's going to stop you from dying from tuberculosis at the ripe age of 28?
>Herd immunity.

Sadly this is wrong.
From the 1860-1930s there was a rush and hysteria to be blessed with the fame of beeing a doctor who "cured" tuberculosis.
Which subsequently lead to "overdiagnosing" of tuberculsis.
They literally declared every respiratory conditions as tuberculosis, because if the patient gets better the doctor would have gotten praise.

Back in the day they didn't even had proper methods of diagnosing "specific" diseases.
They just went with the hysteria.
There is a retarded assumption in the capabilities of "doctors" who magically were able to make the right diagnosis, without proper objective parameters or pathognumonic disease symptoms defined at the time.

>picrel
When the hysteria shifted from tuberculosis to typhoid fever and diphteria all of a sudden "tuberculsis" disappeared, and now only people with certain types of tuberculin and lesions can be diagnosed with tuberculosis.

>>15303246
>Tuberculosis as well, which they just referred to as ‘consumption’

If you don't look at the history of "how [insert disease of the past]" was originally treated they you don't get the Idea why it was so deadly.
Not only was the "cuase" of Tuberculosis vague and but most likely industrial poisoning by toxic chemical fumes.
But also they were unable to differenciate properly between "peunmonia", "bronchitis" and "tuberculosis".
> https://pmj.bmj.com/content/1/3/33
in the late 1800s and early 1900s they gave poeple toxic and extremly invasive therapies, which killed them.
They gave people for example "Shiloh's Consumption Cure".
Which was Alcohol, morphine and chloroform and tar.

Not only that, they did "Plobages" on a lot of people on SUSPICION of tuberculosis.
They didn't had serious "diagnostic tools" for that.
They just, filled the lungs with acrylic balls...

Also Slavarsan and Potassium antimony tartrate (tartar emetic of potassium antimonyl tartrate) was used...
Which is incredibly toxic.

And then the fraudulent "tuberculin injections" by robert koch, which does not even did anything beneficial.

Doctors loved to tell every thing is "tuberculosis". Because then they could "experiment" on the patient. And "find a cure" and become "heroes" and had shizophrenic paranoia to not "diagnose the worst possibility".

Quote from 01 December 1925 Postgraduate Medical Journal:

"From the physician's
point of view it is easier and safer to give a positive
diagnosis in a doubtful case. If pulmonary tuberculosis is diagnosed and the patient recovers, credit
is given to the doctor. Even if the diagnosis is
wrong, who is to know ? If, on the other hand, the
patient is said to be free from the disease the doctor
will be blamed if at any future date he should
develop it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculin#The_tuberculin_scandal