Consumption Collection (page 2)

Sterne and Death. 1768. Artist: Thomas Patch
Sterne and Death. 1768. Portrait of Irish-born author and clergyman Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) who is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

John Keats, English poet, 19th century. Portrait of Keats (1795-1821), one of the pricipal members of the English Romantic movement

Help fight against tuberculosis!, poster, 1910. Artist: Nikolai Gerardov
Help fight against tuberculosis!, poster, 1910. Found in the collection of the State Museum of History, Moscow

Professor Bergmann injecting a tuberculosis patient, 1891. Bergmann assisted Robert Koch (1843-1910) in investigations into the treatment of tuberculosis (TB)

Various types of bacteria, 1889. 5: pneumonia culture; 6: albumen from a rotten egg; 7& 8: tuberculosis as prepared by Koch; 9: sputum from a TB patient; 10: anthrax bacillus; 11

Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, c1890
Robert Louis Stevenson, in Samoa, c1890. Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author and poet. In search of health, in 1889 he settled with his family at Vailima in Samoa

Scene from Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin, c1870. The death of Eva from tuberculosis. Tom and Topsy with the family at Evas bedside while the rest of the slaves in the courtyard pray for

A tuberculosis patient being given a transfusion of goats blood, 1891. A woman receiving a direct blood transfusion from a goat at Dr Bernheims clinic

Novalis (1772-1801), pen-name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, German Romantic poet and novelist. Died of consumption. Known as the Prophet of Romanticism

Robert Koch (1843-1910), German bacteriologist and physician in his laboratory
Robert Koch (1843-1910, German bacteriologist and physician in his laboratory. In 1890 Koch introduced Tuberculin which he thought a cure for Tuberculosis)

Treatment of Tuberculosis using electricity, 1901. Francisque Crotte demonstrating his cure for tuberculosis using electricity produced by an electrostatic machine

Portrait of the Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna, 1840. Artist: Christina Robertson
Portrait of the Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna, 1840. Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825-1844) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and his wife

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