460BC: Phthisis is a Greek term for tuberculosis; around 460 BC, Hippocrates identified phthisis as the most widespread disease of the times involving coughing up blood and fever, which was almost always fatal. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
16th century
1553: Edward was beginning to show great promise when he fell violently ill with tuberculosis in 1553 and died that August two months short of his 16th birthday. - History of England, Wikipedia.
September 14, 1637: Charlestown made him the minister of the Church, but
within the following year he contracted tuberculosis and died on September 14,
1638. - John Harvard (clergyman), Wikipedia.
December 17, 1648: Gillespie was elected moderator of the Assembly in 1648, but the
duties of that office (the court continued to sit from the 12 July
to the 12 August) told on his health; he fell into consumption, and died
at Kirkcaldy on the 17 December 1648. - George Gillespie, Wikipedia.
September 20, 1668: He contracted consumption, of which he died on 20
September 1668, aged 49. - Vincent Wing, Wikipedia.
18th century
April 15, 1756: He died of tuberculosis at the age of 29 and was
buried in Dresden on 15 April 1756. - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Wikipedia.
September 27, 1760: She was
aged 35 and died on 27 September 1760 of Tuberculosis. - Charles III of Spain, Wikipedia.
April 30, 1770: He died of consumption on the evening of 30 April
1770 while the ship was anchored in the Bay, and was buried ashore
at Kurnell the following morning. - Sutherland Point, Wikipedia.
January 9, 1776: He died of consumption at Great
Yarmouth on 9 January 1776. - John Ives, Wikipedia.
October 22, 1780: From
the time of his lay preaching until his death of tuberculosis on
October 22, 1808, Randall was instrumental in planting many
Freewill Baptist churches throughout New England. - Benjamin Randall, Wikipedia.
February 8, 1794: He made a
second journey to Greece, but developed consumption on the way home and died in Bath on February
8, 1796. - John Sibthorp, Wikipedia.
September 22, 1795: Tuberculosis at this
time was almost a certain death sentence, and he gave his last
public concert on September 22, 1799, before dying the following
year. - Hyacinthe Jadin, Wikipedia.
19th century
1810s
October 18, 1811: However, the composer was now seriously ill with tuberculosis and he died on October 18, 1817. - Étienne Méhul, Wikipedia.
1815: One in four deaths in England was of consumption; by 1918 one in six deaths in France were still caused by TB. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
December 1, 1818: Keats wrote the poem from late 1818 until the spring of
1819, when he gave it up as having "too many Miltonic inversions."
He was also nursing his younger brother Tom, who died on 1 December
1818 of tuberculosis. - Hyperion (poem), Wikipedia.
1820s
February 22, 1825: Childbirth accelerated the advance of the tuberculosis from
which she suffered, and she died on 22 February 1825, aged
twenty-nine. - Eleanor Anne Porden, Wikipedia.
1830s
February 21, 1834: He died in office of tuberculosis on February 21, 1834. - John Breathitt, Wikipedia.
February 21, 1834: Governor Breathitt died of tuberculosis on February 21, 1834, and
Morehead was sworn in as governor the following day. - James Turner Morehead (Kentucky), Wikipedia.
1840s
September 3, 1843: Mary died from tuberculosis on 3 September 1843. - George Dewey, Wikipedia.
January 8, 1845: At the age of 36 and in extreme poverty, Burke died of tuberculosis at home
on 8 January 1845 in Francis Street, Waterloo, London. - James Burke (boxer), Wikipedia.
September 17, 1846: Scott was bought by the sons of his first owner and freed, but he died of tuberculosis a year later on September 17, 1858. - History of the United States (1849–1865), Wikipedia.
November, 1847: Alexander contracted tuberculosis and for health reasons
relocated in November 1847 to the drier climes of Madeira, Portugal, where he died on 20 February 1848 at
the age of 29 (some sources say he died in Mantua). - Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, Wikipedia.
August 21, 1848: She died from tuberculosis at the age of 43 and was
buried at Harlow on 21 August 1848. - Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, Wikipedia.
1857: Her father died of consumption and Elizabeth was put into
service with the family of a pharmacist in Melbourne which gave her easy access to the
Opium she needed to feed her drug habit. - Elizabeth Woolcock, Wikipedia.
September, 1858: Louis for less than nine months before he died from tuberculosis in September 1858. - Dred Scott, Wikipedia.
November 11, 1868: It was Asa Gray's hope
that Horace Mann became his successor at the botanical garden and
the botany department at Harvard University in 1868 but Mann
died of tuberculosis on November 11, 1868. - Horace Mann Jr., Wikipedia.
1870s
April 29, 1870: During his 4-year recuperation he wrote more
mournful songs like the love ballad "Myspie's Den" and "Auld Ash
Tree", and continued to be published in The Scotsman, but never
fully recovered and died of TB on 29 April 1870 at Bank End, Jedburgh. - Thomas Davidson (poet), Wikipedia.
January 15, 1872: He
never fully recovered from the privations suffered while on the
Expedition and he died prematurely of pulmonary tuberculosis on 15
January 1872 aged 33. - John King (explorer), Wikipedia.
1873: He later sold his farm and moved
to Topeka
to serve as Secretary of the Board of Agriculture from 1873 until
his death from tuberculosis in 1880. - Alfred Gray (Kansas politician), Wikipedia.
1875: Although Haines himself died at the age of 35 in 1875 from the effects of tuberculosis, his influence lived on. - History of figure skating, Wikipedia.
December 2, 1877: He fell
ill in October 1877 and died shortafter on tuberculosis on December 2. - Legrand G. Capers, Wikipedia.
March 24, 1882: The bacillus causing tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was identified and described on 24 March 1882 by Robert Koch. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
December 28, 1885: His first wife died young from tuberculosis, and Sayajirao married on 28
December 1885 another Maratha lady from Dewas, Shrimant Lakshmibai Mohite (1871-1958),
who became Chimnabai II upon her wedding. - Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Wikipedia.
1890: Koch announced a glycerine extract of the tubercle bacilli as a remedy for tuberculosis in 1890, calling it "tuberculin". - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
November 15, 1896: Her father died of tuberculosis on either 15 November 1896,[7] or the same day of the following year. - Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, Wikipedia.
1904: The promotion of Christmas Seals began in Denmark during 1904 as a way to raise money for tuberculosis programs. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
September 2, 1904: He continued as a cooper in Jersey City, while still managing his business interests in New York, until his death from tuberculosis on September 2, 1904. - James Brady (criminal), Wikipedia.
1905: This was the first vaccine for TB and developed at the Pasteur Institute in France between 1905 and 1921. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
1906: The first genuine success in immunizing against tuberculosis was developed from attenuated bovine-strain tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin in 1906. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
1907: It expanded to the United States and Canada in 1907 – 1908 to help the National Tuberculosis Association (later called the American Lung Association). - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
November 1, 1907: Jarry lived in his 'pataphysical world until his death in Paris
on 1 November 1907 of tuberculosis, aggravated by drug and
alcohol use. - Alfred Jarry, Wikipedia.
December 30, 1909: He grew ill in jail and died of consumption on December 30, 1909. - Belle Gunness, Wikipedia.
1910s
1913: The disease remained such a significant threat to public health, that when the Medical Research Council was formed in Britain in 1913, its initial focus was tuberculosis research. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
1915: Also in 1915, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent the following two
years in sanatoria,
where she decided to become a writer. - Katherine Anne Porter, Wikipedia.
1915: Despite weak health following an attack of tuberculosis in 1915,
she left home for New York
in about 1921, hoping to be an actress or a writer. - Gamel Woolsey, Wikipedia.
1919: He was pensioned off from the Austrian military with the
rank of Captain because of tuberculosis that he got during the war. - Herman Potočnik, Wikipedia.
1920s
1921: The BCG vaccine was first used on humans in 1921 in France,[54] but it was not until after World War II that BCG received widespread acceptance in the USA, Great Britain, and Germany. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
1928: Smith moved to Louisiana
in 1928 because his wife contracted tuberculosis and Shreveport had a good reputation
for helping those with tuberculosis. - Gerald L. K. Smith, Wikipedia.
December 26, 1937: Gurney died of tuberculosis while still a patient at the
City of London Mental Hospital on 26 December 1937, aged 47. - Ivor Gurney, Wikipedia.
February 11, 1939: Ali Kelmendi died in France on 11 February 1939 of tuberculosis. - Ali Kelmendi, Wikipedia.
1940s
1940s: Twin studies in the 1940s showed that susceptibility to TB was heritable. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
1944: She was diagnosed as having tuberculosis in her left lung and spent several weeks in hospital before appearing to have recovered. - Vivien Leigh, Wikipedia.
1946: It was not until 1946 with the development of the antibiotic streptomycin that effective treatment and cure became possible. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
1946: She died of tuberculosis in 1946 and Tito insisted that she be buried in the backyard of the Beli Dvor, his Belgrade residence. - Josip Broz Tito, Wikipedia.
1950s
September 29, 1951: In the prison his
health collapsed, and he died on September 29, 1951 from tuberculosis. - Aleksander Krzyżanowski, Wikipedia.
September 1, 1954: Goodman retired from his NCC post on September 1, 1954 because of
tuberculosis. - E. Urner Goodman, Wikipedia.
1960s
September 4, 1963: He died on 4 September 1963, in London and is buried beside his
mother (who died of TB when he was a child) and his
grandfather. - Carrowdore, Wikipedia.
1970s
1970s: The DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short-course) strategy of tuberculosis treatment recommended by WHO was based on clinical trials done in the 1970s by Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai, India. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
January 16, 1972: He scored a goal against Fiorentina on 16 January 1972, but this
was to be his last for a while because he was forced out of the
game with a lung infection and the initial stages of tuberculosis. - Roberto Bettega, Wikipedia.
December 19, 1978: Melford's next marriage, which lasted two years, was to actress Diana Miller who died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1927, at the age of 25. - George Melford, Wikipedia.
1980s
1980s: Hopes that the disease could be completely eliminated have been dashed since the rise of drug-resistant strains in the 1980s. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
1980s: Due to the elimination of public health facilities in New York and the emergence of HIV, there was a resurgence of TB in the late 1980s. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
September, 1993: As
recently as September 1993 Van Zandt had been in a Nashville hospital suffering from
what at first was diagnosed as tuberculosis, but was later found to be a
severe case of pneumonia. - No Deeper Blue, Wikipedia.
1996: Jonathan Scott was infected with the desease and lumps formed on the side of his face. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
21st century
2000: The emergence of drug-resistant strains has also contributed to this new epidemic with, from 2000 to 2004, 20% of TB cases being resistant to standard treatments and 2% resistant to second-line drugs. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
September, 2004: In September
2004 he delivered the keynote address at the AGM of SANTA (SA
National Tuberculosis Association) in Port Elizabeth,
South Africa with
a talk entitled “Infectious diseases in South Africa: HIV/AIDS and
TB, some statistical trends”. - Robert Carl-Heinz Shell, Wikipedia.
2005: A 2005 study showed that a DNA TB vaccine given with conventional chemotherapy can accelerate the disappearance of bacteria as well as protect against re-infection in mice; it may take four to five years to be available in humans. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
2007: The country with the highest estimated incidence rate of TB was Swaziland, with 1200 cases per 100,000 people. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
2007: There were an estimated 13.7 million chronic active cases, 9.3 million new cases, and 1.8 million deaths, mostly in developing countries. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
2007: In the United Kingdom, the national average was 15 per 100,000 in 2007, and the highest incidence rates in Western Europe were 30 per 100,000 in Portugal and Spain. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
2007: In the United States, the overall tuberculosis case rate was 4 per 100,000 persons in 2007. - Tuberculosis, Wikipedia.
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