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unusual facts about Pulmonary tuberculosis



Carlos Guillén

In September 2001, Guillén was hospitalized after being diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, but was ready for the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees the following month.

José Leandro Montalvo Guenard

During 1934-35, he was a tisiologist at the now-defunct Ponce Hospital for Tuberculosis, and from 1935 and on he was Director of the Ponce Asylum for the Blind (Hospital de Ciegos).


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Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel

While travelling in 1853, Abel was affected by pulmonary phthisis and died in 1854 in the care of his uncle in Leonberg.

Henry Lyster Jameson

After developing pulmonary tuberculosis, he went to South Africa, where he worked for the Natal Education Department and later lectured at the Technical College in Johannesburg.

Jedediah Vincent Huntington

The last few years of his life were spent at Pau, in the south of France, where he died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his forty-eighth year.

Norman Nicholson

Nicholson was educated at Holborn Hill School and Millom Secondary School, but his education was interrupted when he needed treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis aged 16, being away for two years in a Linford, Hampshire sanatorium.