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Famous people who died of tuberculosis in European history.
Tuberculosis is an ancient disease. From 17 to the 20th century, it was once one of the main "killers" of Americans and Europeans. Even with the popularization of antibiotics today, tuberculosis is still one of the main causes of death in many underdeveloped countries. Moreover, this disease not only spreads among the working people, but also many celebrities can't escape this white disaster.

1, Chopin

Chopin is one of the most influential and popular piano composers in history and one of the most important figures in Polish music history. From 65438 to 0829, he toured Europe as a composer and pianist. Later, due to the failure of the Warsaw Uprising, he settled in Paris and engaged in teaching and writing. From 65438 to 0849, Chopin died of tuberculosis in Paris.

Before he died, Chopin held his sister Ludwika's hand tightly and murmured, "Please take my heart back after I die. I want to sleep underground in my motherland.

2. Chekhov

Anton Chekhov is a famous Russian novelist and dramatist. Chekhov's life was brilliant, and he created a lyric psychological novel with a unique style. The art was concise and exquisite, and the drama was deeply poetic and "non-dramatic". In the west, he is called "the most natural playwright among naturalistic playwrights".

Chekhov had great affection for the people of China. He asked Gorky to visit China together, but he failed to do so because of his long illness. 1904 July 15 died of lung disease.

3. Shelley

Shelley, a famous English romantic poet, is regarded as one of the best English poets in history. He didn't disappear, but he felt a drop in the ocean, and he became a rare treasure of the assistant manager. Shelley herself is infected with tuberculosis. 1822, Shelley is thirty years old. On July 8th, on my way home, a storm suddenly broke out in Bezia, and Shelley and others capsized and drowned. Shelley is under 30.

4. Thoreau

Henry david thoreau, an American writer, philosopher, representative of transcendentalism, abolitionist and naturalist, with or without anarchism, once worked as a land surveyor.

In Thoreau's time, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, measles and other diseases were quite common in rural Concord and neighboring cities such as new york and Boston. His father and sister Helen died of tuberculosis. After four or five months in bed, Thoreau wrote in his diary in his later years: "I have been ill for so long that I have forgotten what health looks like."

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The origin of tuberculosis:

On a cold night thousands of years ago, in a cave in Africa, a group of people gathered around the fire. They cook food with flames, make new weapons and keep themselves warm. However, where there is fire, there is smoke, which makes people crowded together cough sadly. In their inflamed respiratory tract, a microorganism usually living in the soil invaded, which took root, changed and evolved into a new thing.

This story, University of New South Wales biologist Rebecca? Rebecca chisholm and Mark? MarkTanaka believes that it may be the origin of tuberculosis, one of the oldest diseases in mankind.

Tuberculosis, commonly known as tuberculosis, is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which has plagued human beings for thousands of years. Scientists found traces of tuberculosis infection in Israeli remains 9,000 years ago and Egyptian mummies 2,000 years ago.

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