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“But randomized control trials have found that directly observed therapy is no more effective than giving patients their pills to take home in two-week or monthlong cycles, provided the patients are adequately supported. DOTS also failed to address the growing crisis of drug-resistant tuberculosis, and failed to identify many cases of TB because smear microscopy is so much less sensitive than chest X-rays. But even in 2025, DOTS remains standard practice in much of the world.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“which is in the city of David, and overlooking the camp of the uncircumcised;”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

“As Frank M. Snowden observes in Epidemics and Society, white physicians in Europe and the U.S. generally agreed that consumption was, as some Everyone eighteenth-century observers put it, a disease of civilization.

Everyone knew that rural communities were less vulnerable to consumption. "Fond as I am of London," one mother wrote after both she and her daughter became ill, "there seems a fatality against my living in it." But in a highly racialized social order, conceiving of phthisis "civilized" disease also meant that it could not be a disease of uncivilized people, which furthered the racialization of consumption.

In Europe and the U.S., most white doctors believed that phthisis as it was inherited by those with great sensitivity and intelligence could only affect white people, and it was sometimes known as "The White Man's Plague." One American doctor, for instance, called it, "a disease of the master race not of the slave race.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“let us hasten to the ramparts adjoining the gate of Benjamin, which is in the city of David, and overlooking the camp of the uncircumcised;”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems