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(Critical Issues in Health and Medicine.) By Cynthia A. Connolly. 182 pp., illustrated. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2008. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-8135-4267-6.

It is the year 1908. In the United States, more than 150,000 people will die from tuberculosis. If you contract tuberculosis, your best hope is to be shipped off to a sanatorium, where you will live a regimented life and sleep outdoors in subzero temperatures. But German physician Robert Koch has discovered that this scourge is an infection, and Austrian physician Clemens von Pirquet has developed a skin test that can detect tuberculosis infection before the ravages of the disease are manifest. This is the setting for Cynthia Connolly's carefully researched and informative history, Saving Sickly Children.

Connolly accurately . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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