01/09/2021
DRESDEN, Germany — In a display case at the German Hygiene Museum here is a pretty, blue glass bottle whose daintiness belies its purpose. Manufactured in 1904, it is a flask for tuberculosis patients to wear at the hip, so they could spit up infectious phlegm with relative discretion. (In Thomas Mann’s 1924 novel “The Magic Mountain,” residents of a sanitarium nickname this device Blue Heinrich.)...
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DRESDEN, Germany — In a show case on the German Hygiene Museum here’s a fairly, blue glass bottle whose daintiness belies its function. Manufactured in 1904, it’s a flask for tuberculosis sufferers to put on on the hip, so they might spit up infectious phlegm with relative discretion. (In Thom...