Spitting Blood Quotes

“Experience with tubercular patients would then help to train a new generation of specialist chest surgeons. In the second half of the 20th century, as the number of tuberculosis patients continued to decline and facilities were freed up, they were able to transfer their skills to other serious conditions within the thoracic cavity such as lung cancer, but that lay in the future.”
― Helen Bynum, Spitting Blood: The history of tuberculosis

“The cause of so much suffering and death turned out to be single-celled living organisms, tiny rod-shaped tubercle bacilli.”
― Helen Bynum, Spitting Blood: The history of tuberculosis