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From: "Martin Blackshaw" <>
Subject: Re: [MEDICAL-PEDIGREE] What is consumption?
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:06:21 -0400
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TB Tuberculosis. Fully curable these days after the invention of ??????? in
the late 1950's early 1960's. I had to take the drug for a couple of years
and remain TB free for 5 years after being diagnosed with Bovine TB
originally called Scrofula. It affected the ????? glands in the neck. It was
named Consumption due to the fact you wasted away to skin and bones. I was
sleeping about 12 to 18 hours a day before going into hospital. The problem
started in Greece. I drank a lot of milk that evidently came from non TB
tested cows. Bovine TB is today virtually unknown in Europe and North
America. Should I remember the name of the drug I will drop you a line.

Regards,
Martin Blackshaw
Worcester, MA US

Regards,

Martin Blackshaw

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel and Debbie Holth" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:52 AM
Subject: [MEDICAL-PEDIGREE] What is consumption?


> Hello listers,
>
> My first post to this fascinating list.
>
> Two of my ancestors, an 8-month-old baby boy and his mother, a 27-year-old
woman, died within 2 weeks of each other in 1877, Detroit, MI, and the cause
of death is listed as consumption.
>
> Could someone give me a good definition for that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Debbie
>
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