Tuberculosis - Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, also called TB, phthisis, consumption, and nicknamed the white plague, is the most common infectious disease in the world today. It is caused by a bacterium, usually the Mycobacterium tuberculosis but any member of the so called Tuberculosis complex will do. If left untreated, more than 50% will die in a few years time. It causes about 2-3 million deaths per year out of 9-10 million cases and is especially prevalent in undeveloped, tropical countries. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Bacterium 2 The Disease 3 Diagnosis 4 Treatment 5 Prevention 6 History 7 Tuberculosis as a subtext in art and literature 8 Related articles 9.
Katherine Mansfield - permanently to Europe as a young woman, met and married John Middleton Murry, contracted tuberculosis in 1917. Later she joined the Gurdjieff commune south of Paris France called the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man and died there at Fontainebleau. She is buried in the cemetery in the Fontainebleau district in the town of Avon where there is a street named in her honour. A writer of short stories, Mansfield developed the techniques of Anton Chekhov in the genre. Much of her work reflects her New Zealand childhood. Bibliography: In a German Pension, 1911 Bliss, 1920 The Garden Party, 1922 plus numerous posthumous collections, letters and diaries.
Karl Oskar Medin - as the Heine-Medin disease, named after Medin and another physician, Jakob Heine. He has also influenced the study of meningitis and tuberculosis. Medin received his doctorate in 1880 from the University of Uppsala. He was appointed extraordinary professor at the Karolinska Institute in 1883 and went on to become professor of paediatrics the following year. He became professor emeritus in 1914. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Kiyoshi Atsumi - Asakusa. After two years of fighting against pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957. His performance vividly acting a lovable, innocent man in a film “Dear Mr. Emperor” (Haikei Tennno-Heika-Sama) in 1963 established his reputation as an actor. Later he became the star of the highly popular 'Tora-san' series of films, from 'Tora-san' in 1969 to the forty-eighth film released in 1995, the previous year of his death. All the Tora-san movies were written and directed by Yoji Yamada, and all had much the same plot - Tora-san arrives in some remote town, fixing to con the locals out of their money. He meets a local woman and falls in love. But finding himself on the brink of marriage he abandons her and.
Koch's postulates - establish a causal relationship between a parasite and a disease. He applied these to establish the etiology of tuberculosis, but they have been generalized to other diseases. The organism must be found in all animals suffering from the disease, but not in healthy animals. The organism must be isolated from a diseased animal and grown in pure culture. The cultured organism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy animal. The organism must be reisolated from the experimentally infected animal..
Vezina Trophy - the better team rather than the individual and hence the change was made to offer the William M. Jennings Trophy to the goalkeeper(s) playing for the team with the fewest goals against. The Vezina Trophy was named in honor of Georges Vezina, an exceptional goalkeeper with the Montreal Canadiens, who collapsed during a game in 1925 and was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. Upon Vezina's death, the teams former owners donated the trophy to the League to be awarded for the first time at the end of the 1926-27 season. The late Jacques Plante (1929-1986) holds the record for winning the most Vezinas with seven. Vezina Trophy winners 2003 - Martin Brodeur, New Jersey Devils 2002 - José Théodore, Montreal Canadiens 2001 - Dominik Hasek, Buffalo Sabres 2000 - Olaf Kolzig, Washington.
James Burke (boxer) - into such a violent event between the fighters and the public that Burke had to run away on a horse, afraid for his life. Burke later died at home of Tuberculosis, at the young age of 36. In 1992, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame..
Jimmie Rodgers - jobs. He eventually became a railroad brakeman, an extremely dangerous and highly skilled job. In the days before air brakes the brakeman had to stop the train by running on top of the moving train from car to car setting mechanical brakes on each. Tuberculosis forced him to leave the railroad and he undertook all sorts of work, ranging from police detective to blackface performer before answering an advertisement from Ralph Peer of the Victor Talking Machine Company to audition as a performing artist. This audition in Bristol, Tennessee, on August 4, 1927 (two days after the Carter Family answered the same ad and recorded in the same hall) led to Rodgers' phenomenally successful recording career. His songs, most of which he wrote himself, were typically either sentimental songs about home,.
Vivien Leigh - O'Hara in the American film Gone With the Wind (1939), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress . In 1940, Leigh arranged for a divorce from Holman and married British theatre star Laurence Olivier. The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair. At the time, both were married (Olivier to actress Jill Esmond). In 1944, the actress was diagnosed as having a tuberculosis patch on her left lung. Though she continued her career with such plays as Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, and the 1946 film Caesar and Cleopatra, her illness was getting worse. In 1951, however, Leigh won a second Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. By the early 1960s, Leigh had suffered.
John Young - as a candidate of the Whigs and Antirenters, and was urged to run against the incumbent Governor, Silas Wright on the Whig ticket. He defeated Wright and served as the Governor of New York from January, 1847 to the end of 1848. In 1848 he became a strong supporter of Zachary Taylor's candidacy for President of the United States, and was rewarded when Taylor was successful by appointment as Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York City. He served in the latter post until his death from tuberculosis. John Young, astronaut, can be found here. John Young, SOE field agent, can be found here..
Joseph Conrad - fighter, was arrested by the occupying regime for his patriotic activities, and was sentenced to penal servitude in Siberia. Shortly after this, his mother died of tuberculosis in exile, then his father, despite his being allowed to return to Cracow. Subsequently Conrad was brought up by his uncle. Conrad eventually abandoned his education at the age of 17 to become a seaman in the French merchant navy. He lived an adventurous, buccaneering life -- sailing off Marseilles and becoming involved in gunrunning and political conspiracy. In 1878, after attempted suicide, Józef took service on a British ship in order to avoid French military service. He gained his Master Mariner's certificate, learned English before the age of 21, to finally become a naturalized Briton in 1884. He lived in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and.
John Keats - 1803, when his father died from a fractured skull after falling from his horse. His mother remarried soon afterwards, but as quickly left the new husband and moved herself and her children to live with Keats' grandmother. There, Keats attended a school that first instilled in him a love of literature. In 1810, however, his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving him and his siblings in the custody of their grandmother. The grandmother appointed two guardians to take care of her new charges, and these guardians removed Keats from his old school to become a surgeon's apprentice. This continued until 1814, when after a fight with his master, he left his apprenticeship and became a student at a local hospital. During that year, he devoted more and more of his time to.
John Constable - a local girl whose solicitor father was personally acquainted with the king, and did not consider Constable good enough. After five years, he finally gave his consent to the marriage in 1816. After giving birth to seven children, Maria died of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1829, an event which devastated her husband. See also: English school of painting.
Joseph Stannard - depicts a civic regatta attended by almost 20,000 spectators when the population of Norwich itself was little more than 5,000. The Frolic was organised by John Harvey who aspired to promote Norwich as an international port. In 1826 Stannard married, but suffered from ill-health for much of his later life. Friends and relatives rallied to support him to recuperate at the sea-side resort of Yarmouth where he painted Yarmouth Beach and Jetty. However, Joseph Stannard died from tuberculosis in 1830 aged just 33. His major works, in particular Thorpe Water Frolic are exhibited in Norwich Castle Museum. Joseph Stannard was also an excellent oarsman and a skilled ice-skater. His portrait was painted by Beechey . A memorial stone to Joseph Stannard and his wife, Emily can be viewed at the Church.
John Bright - he took a leading part in its debates, and on returning from a holiday journey in the East, gave the society a lecture on his travels. He first met Richard Cobden in 1836 or 1837. Cobden was an alderman of the newly formed Manchester corporation, and Bright went to ask him to speak at an education meeting in Rochdale. Cobden consented, and at the meeting was much struck by Bright's short speech, and urged him to speak against the Corn Laws. His first speech on the Corn Laws was made at Rochdale in 1838, and in the same year he joined the Manchester provisional committee which in 1839 founded the Anti-Corn Law League He was still only the local public man, taking part in all public movements, especially in opposition to.
Jong-Wook Lee - 2003; having previously served as the organization's tuberculosis program head. He succeeded Brundtland. Quotes "In a world marked by unacceptable health inequalities, we will emphasize those programs that benefit the poorest and most vulnerable communities." (Waddington 7-21-03).
Jose Joaquin Fernandez De Lizardi - the system that had imprisoned him, and even published lavish praises of a new viceroy who he hoped (correctly) would free him after seven months in his cell. Lizardi continued to write and publish his periodicals for the next two years, though increased attention from royalist censors and the Inquisition still muted his critical tone. After the Spanish Cortes were overthrown in 1814, and with them the liberal constitution and the freedom of the press they had proclaimed, Lizardi turned from journalism to literature as a means of expressing his social criticism. This social and political conjuncture, then, was the genesis of Lizardi's first novel, which is commonly recognized as the first Mexican and indeed the first Latin American novel. Like Lizardi's periodicals, the publication of El Periquillo (issued in installments.
Joseph Freinademetz - he and his confrere John Baptist Anzer boarded a ship to Hong Kong, where they stayed for two years. In 1881 they moved to the province South Shantung that they were assigned to. There were 12 million people living in this province, of which 158 had been baptized. Freinademetz was very active in the education of Chinese laymen and priests. He wrote a catechetical manual in Chinese, which he considered a crucial part of their missionary effort. In 1898, he was sick with laryngitis and tuberculosis, so Anzer, who had become bishop, and other priests convinced him to go to Japan to recuperate. He returned, but was not fully cured. When his bishop had to leave China for a journey to Europe in 1907, the administration of the diocese was assigned.
Joseph Martin Kraus - opposed by the landed gentry but supported by the burgesses and peasants. The king had Kraus write Riksdagsmusiken for this occasion, consisting of a march based on the March of the Priests from Mozart's Idomeneo, and a symphony. The legislature approved the king's measures. That year Kraus also gave the Swedish premiere of a Mozart symphony. Legacy Bertil van Boer divides Kraus's sacred music into two periods. The first, from 1768 to 1777, comprises Kraus's music written as a Roman Catholic for Catholic services. For the second, from 1778 to 1790, Kraus was still Catholic, but wrote music for Lutheran services. Aside from short hymns and chorales, there was not much use for sacred music in Sweden at that time. There was also a debate going on regarding the role music.
Igor Stravinsky - 'sending them all to hell.' That he was able to survive such a tethered upbringing with his identity intact testifies to his unquenchable thirst for discovery, which was to last all his life. He displayed an inexhaustible desire to learn and explore art, literature, and life. Not surprisingly his Russian background, with the inward-looking content of its cultural life, soon appeared very limited and provincial to him, and his desire for the world outside was increased. Relatively short of stature and not conventionally handsome , he was nevertheless remarkably photogenic, as many pictures show. After the physical side of his marriage to Ekaterina came to an end with her contracting tuberculosis, he seems to have had little difficulty in attracting high-class partners such as Coco Chanel, who also supported him financially.
