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...tried antibiotics, anti-tuberculosis drugs, X ray, vitamins and plastic surgery did no better than nature. Most of the sores healed after a few months. But after they healed, 82% of the victims showed positive reactions to tests for tuberculosis even though virtually none of the children had had TB...
Culture Proof. With a younger patient, in better general condition, the treatment would almost certainly have knocked out TB of the ordinary infectious type. But Mrs. Roosevelt got no better. After doggedly trying to carry on her work from a hospital bed, and still protesting that she did not want her life prolonged by extraordinary and heroic medical measures. Mrs. Roosevelt left the hospital...
About a week before she died, a culture inoculated with Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow produced the bacilli of tuberculosis. This was almost certain proof that TB had been the mysterious and stubborn lung infection, and an immediate cause of her fever. Most of the dozens of doctors called in on the case agreed that in patients of Mrs. Roosevelt's age, it is not unusual to find the blood-forming mechanism out of kilter in some obscure fashion. And in anybody as determined to keep going as she was, it was not surprising that TB germs (which...
...autopsy, the pathologists found no medical surprises. Idiopathic (by which doctors mean unexplained) anemia, complicated by tuberculosis, was the cause of death. And the TB overruled Mrs. Roosevelt's cherished wish that her corneas be sent to an eye bank. The infection made them unacceptable...
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