French playwright and novelist Alexandre Dumas wrote about the early 1820 ’ s in his Mémoires: “It was all the fashion to suffer from chest complaints; everyone was consumptive, poets especially; it was good form to die before reaching the age of thirty. ”
कहते हैं कि अंग्रेज़ कवि लॉर्ड बाइरन ने कहा: “मैं तपेदिक [टी. बी.] से मरना चाहता हूँ...