Consumption
What is consumption exactly?
"feck off,tea!"
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He was with Theresa in about 1945.
Frank was born in 1930.
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It's a bacteria that disintegrates the linings of the lungs and make them fill with blood. Gradually you suffocate.
shareConsumption was the "old" name for Tuberculosis.
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It was called that because the disease seemed to "consume" people from the inside out.
What a horrible way to die!
El Paso, Texas...ever heard of it?
It acctually was the name for pneumonia not TB.
It wasn't pneumonia. Pneumonia is curable. At the time TB or consumption was a death sentence, thus the reason Everyone avoided Theresa when she had it. It is also very contagious.
shareIn the book when angela catches pneumonia however, it is refered to as pneumonia, suggesting that consumption is TB.
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