Poznámky
Cauterisation (pointes de feu): the application of red-hot needles to the skin over the affected area, a standard treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in the 1880s. The alternative, a blister plaster (vésicatoire), used a chemical irritant to produce a large blister, also intended as a counter-irritant to draw inflammation away from the lungs. Both were extremely unpleasant. ↩