Virtuous69....TB and NTM (MAC is one of the 171 types) are cousins. A third is Leprosy.
The sanitarium your war bride mother went to for treatment of her TB evolved into what is now National Jewish Health. It's name has gone thru changes as it has refined its mission that began in 1899.TDrell

@virtuous69 When
I refer to NTM, that is MAC.
 

@tdrell Terri,
that was an interesting factoid. I had not known that. Incidentally, my
Grandmother was in a sanitorium for years fighting TB. She was always sickly for
the rest of her life.
 

They are related.

Cindy

windwalker....before mid/later 40's options for folks with TB were so limited. Rest and fresh air and proper nutrition and not getting other diseases were about all a person with TB could do......if people could not "get to the mountains" for all of the above....into the Sanatoriums.....I recall driving by one in Chicago in the 50;s....a huge place.....by then no longer in use thanks to the antibiotics that came out mid to late 40's . My mother ...an RN...would tell us that as student nurses in the 30's, they would be assigned to care for TB clients there....and all the masking and isolation gowns they would have to don. Where was your grandmother in the Sanatorium???
someday if you have nothing else to do....look up on NJH site their "history" ..thought it was interesting. Tdrell

@tdrell Yes, Terri, my grandmother was in a sanitorium for years. It was
located in the mountains of Virginia. It was sad because her oldest daughter who
was maybe around 12 yrs old had to raise her two younger brothers. She grew up
to be a nurse.
 

Windwalker....look how lives were soooo disrupted by the nasty TB organism....that had no cure.So many diseases so similar...no cures or prevention. A side comment...I read a book about Marie Curie ...she and hubby discovered the theory of radioactivity as well as 2 materials....radium and polonium..
She was frequently going to the Mountains for a rest....thinking it was TB.
She died in her mid 60s as a result of aplastic anemia caused by exposure to radiation...not TB.
Tdrell

 @tdrell That
is interesting about Marie Curie.