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When Seneca got tuberculosis his doctors sent him to the dry climate of Egypt to recover, and a decade later he was well enough to return to Rome. 1854 years later, TB sufferers were flocking to the dry American west to recover. Did dry air really improve TB?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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