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Tuberculosis--Patients

  • The view from a kite
    Auteur:
    Hull, Maureen
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    A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen is stuck in a tuberculosis sanatorium with only her journal and the odd cigarette to keep her sane. Her twisted sense of humour helps her deal with invasive medical procedures, oversensitive friends, and...
  • The plague and I
    Auteur:
    Macdonald, Betty Bard
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    Tuberculosis. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. And what if she did not recover? Hardly the basis for comedy, one would suppose. And...
  • Oscar lives next door : a story inspired by Oscar Peterson's childhood
    Auteur:
    Farmer, Bonnie, Lafrance, Marie
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    Long before Oscar Peterson became a virtuoso jazz pianist, he was a boy who loved to play the trumpet. When childhood tuberculosis weakened his lungs, Oscar could no longer play his beloved instrument. He took up piano and the rest is...
  • Amy's journey
    Auteur:
    Bursey, Lillian
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    Amy’s Journey is the story of a young girl, who at the age of twelve, is diagnosed with tuberculosis and becomes a patient in a Sanatorium. While on the road to recovery, she copes with a sudden death in her family which...
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