Again T.B. is always thought of as a disease of poor people living in poor conditions but that was not necessarily so. It could be contracted from milk from cows not T.T.attested, it was then often a glandular form
affecting the lymph glands in the neck but of course any part of the digestive system also .This is why Pasteurisation of fresh milk was such an advance. Remember milk was sold "raw" straight from the cow- baccilli included even in big towns.
The T.B. of the lungs was an airborne infection and spread when affected people coughed etc.but even breathing out spread it .Young active people almost always succumbed quicker than older ones .One of my aunties died from it, she worked in an office with an old man who had been a patient for years .He outlived her. Fresh air, really not the norm in industrial overcrowded areas was a good preventative but by no means to be relied on, however it formed part of the cure which
before anti-biotics consisted of fresh air-rest-good diet and if necessary collapsing the affected lung to rest it..What they did if both lungs were affected I`m`not sure`!!!.` Glad to have helped. Viktoria. P.S. Geoff I agree, not Anaemia, I should have cleaned my specs !
