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What was (is) the disease known in the past as 'consumption"?

Dec 09, 2006 by ginarene71 | Posted in Infectious Diseases

I have read it in several books about the past and also in old newspaper clippings. I imagine it to be something similar to tuberculosis, but really I have no idea.

It is tuberculosis. People used to call it comsumption, b/c after suffering with it for a few years, people would waste away and become very weak and thin, as though they were being 'consumed' by the disease. In addition to affecting the lungs (the

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