The Long Road to End Tuberculosis
Codon
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
This essay by Kamal Nahas concludes Issue 04 of Asimov Press. In the 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain , Thomas Mann describes a sanatorium patient named Anton Ferge as he undergoes a painful tuberculosis (TB) treatment. “I lie there with my face covered, so I can’t see anything,” Anton says. “I feel myself being pinched and squeezed, that is the flesh they are laying back and pegging down.” Ferge’s harrowing treatment is a lung-flattening artificial pneumothorax
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