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Why Do Hospitals Really Cause Tuberculosis?

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Excerpt from Paramus, published February 2015
Medical research at the time indicates that hospitals were very aware of the existence of the bacterium that actually causes tuberculosis, but heliotherapy – or sunbathing treatment – was thought to kill that bacteria. As seen above, patients did not mind the long hours of sunbathing prescribed to them, but other details of patients’ lives were strictly and obsessively regulated, and patients were told their previous or current behavior was most likely to blame in their contraction of the disease.
Patients were told treatment would not help if it lasted less than three months, but would probably not improve much if continued after three of four years. The average stay of a tuberculosis patient
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