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From: "Ellen Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [GO] Consumption
> A further by-the-way. I now have a wonderful 35-volume 1880s
> Britannica, so if anyone wants t
Diane Purkiss writes:
"In the C19th, TB was always associated with the menace of the
underclass."
This is not the impression given by the 1885 Encyclopaedia Britannica,
where it is seen as primarily hereditary, the long article stating: "No
disease runs more in families than tubercule. While th
