But isn't TB also contagious? When he was first sick, Elsie sat by him and read to him and talked to him all the time, which was why I'd assumed it was a broken hip, until they started talking about the disease returning.
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Hil R. - Mar 18, 2009 11:38:22 am PDT #3939 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Calli - Mar 18, 2009 11:42:08 am PDT #3940 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
But isn't TB also contagious? When he was first sick, Elsie sat by him and read to him and talked to him all the time
Well, we know that. But in the 1800s people would be shut up with TB sufferers for hours on end, nursing and caring for them. That's probably how Keats got it from his brother, who Keats nursed until the brother died from TB. Modern epidemiology didn't really take off until after Snow and the whole London cholera thing.
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2009 11:42:34 am PDT #3941 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Also, he first got sick when he was about seven, which I think would most likely rule out syphilis.
amych - Mar 18, 2009 11:42:42 am PDT #3942 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
((hearts the London cholera thing. I mean, not the cholera, cholera thing, but.))
Ginger - Mar 18, 2009 11:43:24 am PDT #3943 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
But isn't TB also contagious?
Pasteur didn't discover germs until 1860 and it took a long time after that for people to give up the notions like TB was caused by miasmas, the night air or a delicate constitution.
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2009 11:43:29 am PDT #3944 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Mysterious illinesses were popular in Victorian lit. Remember Mac's fever that threatened his vision in Alcott's Eight Cousins? I could never figure out how that worked.
lisah - Mar 18, 2009 11:45:27 am PDT #3945 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
My great-grandmother died of tuberculosis when my grandmother was 12,
One of my great-grandmothers died of TB when my grandfather was about 13. He never really got over that.
But isn't TB also contagious? When he was first sick, Elsie sat by him and read to him and talked to him all the time, which was why I'd assumed it was a broken hip, until they started talking about the disease returning
My great-grandmother caught the disease because she'd been caring for a friend with it.
eta I can't remember they year exactly but would have been around 1925.
sumi - Mar 18, 2009 11:45:11 am PDT #3946 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Well, didn't Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister lose her sight to Scarlet Fever? Couldn't that have been it?
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2009 11:45:25 am PDT #3947 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Papa says that he's going to tell Herbert no, and Elsie says that Herbert said that a refusal would kill him. He responds, "I don't believe it; people don't die so easily." Has he forgotten that his own daughter nearly died of the threat of Catholicism?
Cashmere - Mar 18, 2009 11:45:40 am PDT #3948 of 30000
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Shakespearian types...is Macbeth too much for a 12 year old?
I don't think so. The characters are very straight forward and the themes are pretty simple: envy, revenge, ambition. I think younger kids would eat up the magical aspects and enjoy Macbeth's journey from loyal soldier to murderer.
Beverly made me snort Diet Coke. The funny burns.