Gruźlica: choroba, na którą modnie było umierać | Historia choroby

Tuberculosis has killed more people than any other disease in human history—and yet, for a century, it was fashionable to die from it. In the nineteenth century, consumption was romanticized: deathly pallor, feverish flush, and morbid thinness were considered the epitome of beauty, and the disease itself—the fate of sensitive souls, poets, and aristocrats. In this episode, the full history of the disease: what tuberculosis and consumption are, how the Koch bacillus imperceptibly devoured lungs for decades, why it was called the "white plague" and the "captain of death," how consumptives in New England were seriously mistaken for vampires and their graves were dubbed, and how mountain sanatoriums, fresh air, and finally antibiotics turned the tide of the Thousand Years' War. You'll learn how tuberculosis is transmitted and its symptoms, why hemoptysis was terrifying, how Robert Koch discovered the germ in 1882, how sanatoriums and the BCG vaccine helped, how streptomycin became the first real cure, and why tuberculosis has still not been defeated and continues to kill people around the world. #tuberculosis #consumption #diseasehistory