The Weariness, the Fever, and the FretIn The Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret Katherine McCuaig takes an in depth look at the campaign against TB, from its beginnings as part of the turn of the century urban social reform movement to the 1950s and the discovery of antibiotics that could cure it. Although the bacillus that causes it had been discovered in 1882, at the turn of the century TB was, as Osler observed, "a social disease with a medical aspect." With "fresh air, good food, good