Circe's Island
A Young Woman's Memories of Tuberculosis Treatment in the 1950s
Circe's Island A Young Woman's Memories of Tuberculosis Treatment in the 1950s
In 1950, when she was a student at Edinburgh University, the author was found to be suffering from TB and hospitalised in the sanatorium known as the Royal Victoria Hospital for Tuberculosis. This memoir relives the privations and heartaches, as well as the laughs, as she and her fellow patients underwent treatment.