Andreas H.O. quoted Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
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By the time of Eliza’s death, “consumptive chic,” as Carolyn Day termed it, had taken over European beauty standards. Women were discouraged from physical activity and too much time in the sun. “Languid and listless ladies sporting pale complexions were all the rage,” Day writes. The French novelist Henri Murger told of a young consumptive’s corpse that the glow of her face made it look like “she had died of beauty.”