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Doctor Who is big on Tumblr again. Can you connect it to tuberculosis?
It's not even difficult!
David Whitaker was the first story editor for Doctor Who.
In 1934, when he was a five-year-old boy, David and his brother were both sent to live in a TB sanitarium (like millions of children around the world before the discovery of antibiotics that could treat and cure TB).
In most sanitariums, visits from family were discouraged, not only because it could spread the disease but also because visits might "excite" the patients, and the patient's job was ... to be patient. Experts believed patients had to be as calm and still as possible in order to recover.
Now, I should acknowledge here that there are many stories about why the show is named "Doctor Who," and credit is often given to co-creator Sydney Newman. I'm not an Doctor Who expert, just to state the obvious!
BUT David Whitaker's surviving family members told this to a biographer, and I have no reason to doubt them: in order to pass the time in the utterly boring, anti-child environment of the sanitarium, David and his brother invented a game to play together in their minds. The game was called "Doctor What and Doctor Who."
not to sound like I’m in the thick of it but I found a how would you die in a polar expedition quiz
Is there anyone who knows anything about Consumption by Courtney Baron? I’m looking to direct it next year for my schools one act festival, and just trying to get as much info as possible
I know I've complained about this before but I'm still disgusted that men continue to spit on the sidewalk every day during a god damned pandemic. I actually avoid walking on the sidewalk by the boy's Catholic school down the street from my apartment because it's always completely coated in spit. Teach your sons some god damn basic hygiene like don't coat the sidewalk with your nasty saliva during a fucking pandemic. Actually don't cover the sidewalk with your nasty saliva ever because that's gross and I don't want to be tracking your gross saliva into my home, not ever but especially not during a pandemic.
Hey there! We’re moots cos of the antebellum thing, but I love your little illness dudes. So cute! The two things on your blog makes me think about what if tuberculosis looked like John Calhoun
I UM OVERDID THIS
its less Tuberculosis looking like Calhoun and more Calhoun looking like Tuberculosis
a love child, if you may-
BTW hes wearing a duckbill mask
(Make bro skinny af he is tuberculosis afterall)
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Does anybody remember this?
An amazing story run by NPR of a chemist in Tanzania who is training rats to sniff out patients’ sputum for positive TB strains. The rats can correctly pick out TB in samples 2/3 of the time and they can evaluate more samples in 10 minutes than a lab technician in one day! What a positive collaboration between two- and four-legged creatures!
Read article here.
Dont let romanticized depictions of tuberculosis in victorian novels fool you into thinking theres ethical consumption under late capitalism