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Pulmonary Tuberculosis
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Also known as: pulmonary tuberculosis · lung TB · pulmonary phthisis · consumption of the lung · TB of the lung · open TB · cavitary tuberculosis
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Pulmonary tuberculosis is the classic consumption. The old word is no coincidence, and it is not merely the romanticization of a disease that consumed entire biographies in the sanatoriums of the 19th century. Consumption means: a person becomes less. They lose weight though they eat. They lose colour though they live. They cough, they sweat through the night, the cheeks hollow out, and in the lungs — there, where the air of the world should flow in and out freely — the tissue corrodes itself.
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