The Rise of the Surgical Age in the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis:A Case Study of the Mississippi State Sanatorium
The historiography of tuberculosis, TB, covers four periods in the United States. During the Victorian Age, TB was classified as consumption. After Robert Kochs discovery of the tubercle bacillus in the 1882, the germ theory took precedence. The early 1900s saw the rise of the Sanatorium Age, and f...
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LSU
2010
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04282010-140659/ |