Curing Tuberculosis with Puppy Oil

ID: 4936 ~ Source: Reading from The Day Book, Chicago, Illinois, April 29, 1912; Music courtesy of Unheard Music Concepts and the Free Music Archive.  ~ Creator: Logan Camporeale
This file appears in: Tuberculosis at Fort Spokane

This reading from a 1912 newspaper shows how desperate people were for a tuberculosis cure.

This file appears in: Tuberculosis at Fort Spokane

By Nicolle Southwick
In the early 1900s, tuberculosis was known as the “great white plague,” and at the turn of the century it killed around 450 Americans every day. An infectious disease of the lungs, tuberculosis spreads through the air, usually via coughing fits.…