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"They were three months passing through the forest", an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis in 1931, at the age of just 30. See more of her magical illustrations here: https://t.co/EZPMQrm62Z

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2018-06-08

The Green Fairy. The artists drink of choice, Absinthe was banned in USA & France. "Absinthe makes you crazy & criminal, provokes epilepsy & tuberculosis, & has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman & a degenerate of the infant"

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2018-04-03

Aubrey Vincent
Died this day in 1898 from tuberculosis aged just 25
He was not only a wonderful but also an author.

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2018-03-16

Okita Sōji
During the Bakumatsu, Okita faced Himura Kenshin shortly at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi. Sometime that year, he died due to tuberculosis. https://t.co/y5v8lQTtCi

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2018-02-10

While dying of tuberculosis George Orwell went to a remote Scottish house to write what he knew would be his final book: 1984. He submitted the manuscript in mid-1949, and died, on this day, January 21st, in 1950, aged 46. 1984 remains a warning.
Images by Jonathan Burton

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2018-01-22

Ukyo Tachibana is often drawn with or has apples as part of his moveset because of their usage as a folk remedy for tuberculosis.

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2017-12-13

Samurai Shodown's Ukyo Tachibana, a bishonen with tuberculosis based winposes.

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2017-12-13

Born in Chicago, Illinois ~ died of tuberculosis at only thirty years of age.

Virginia Frances Sterrett ~ 1900~1931

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2017-11-24

Edvard depicted his older sister on her deathbed in 'The Sick Child'. She died from tuberculosis at 15. How sad is this painting?

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2017-08-02

Virginia Sterrett draws the ancient French fairy tale. He completed tuberculosis in 19 years after the completion of illustrations, 30 died

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2016-11-11

Superfast therapy cracks multidrug-resistant tuberculosis https://t.co/a9VoDh7vwe

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2016-10-27