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By Katherine Ott. 242 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1996. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-29910-8.

In an article entitled "A Plea for the Beards," one 19th-century physician argued that facial hair protected the throat and the lungs from tuberculosis. Patients at Edward Trudeau's tuberculosis sanatorium in upstate New York were treated with turtle serum. In Denver, patients receiving the "slaughterhouse cure" filled tumblers with the blood of recently slaughtered animals.

As Katherine Ott explains in Fevered Lives, her interesting sociocultural history of tuberculosis from the 1870s to the 1930s, tuberculosis today hardly resembles the disease that existed during the late 19th century. For one thing, before 1900 tuberculosis was termed consumption, a reflection of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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