Helen Flanders Dunbar, M.D. (Psychiatry in the Medical Specialties, 1959) wrote …

“The predisposition to tuberculosis appears to be established very early in life as a kind of infant despair. The symptoms of colds and hay fever have been discussed as substitutes for the infant’s helpless crying, but William Menninger has written of tuberculosis as a flight from frustration and the responsibilities of life — in short, a kind of organic suicide.”

Dr. Dunbar (same source as above) also wrote …

“What has happened to those susceptibles whom we have deprived of tuberculosis? Of course there are other chest diseases among which to choose, but most of them lack the chronicity and marked incapacitation characteristic of tuberculosis. It is possible that people who some years ago would have succumbed to tuberculosis are now swelling the ranks of the cancer victims, whom they resemble in many respects. It is even more possible that many of them are adding themselves to the accident victims and to suicides because accident-proneness and self-destructive tendencies are prominent among them.”

Swami Nitty-Gritty was the first to tell me tuberculosis is a medical treatment for cancer.