Well Diary...I Have Tuberculosis: Researching a Teenager's 1918 Sanatorium Experience by Shirley Morgan

Well Diary...I Have Tuberculosis: Researching a Teenager's 1918 Sanatorium Experience

Shirley Morgan

132 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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Sixteen year old Evelyn Bellak kept a diary while hospitalized in 1918 as a patient with tuberculosis. The treatment regimen was called a "rest cure" because there were no antibiotics then. The diary, found in a library, is an impassioned account ...

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