“[Some] TB reformers offered stereotypical explanations for variations in susceptibility. A North Carolina sanatorium superintendent, Lucius Morse, writing in the Journal of the Outdoor Life [February 1919], noted that ‘primitive people’ in their natural state did not have tuberculosis and that once they were exposed to it by contact with Westerners, they often succumbed quickly. […]
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Wrong about TB, right about Chimney Rock
Posted in Just A Bite, Memorabilia Moment, tagged chimney rock, lucius morse, nancy tomes, the gospel of germs, tuberculosis on March 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »