Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium by Stacie Burke

Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium

Stacie Burke

576 pages paperback

2 editions

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
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In 1882, Robert Koch identified tuberculosis as an infectious bacterial disease. In the sixty years between this revelation and the discovery of an antibiotic treatment, streptomycin, the disease was widespread in Canada, often infecting children ...

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