Beards have been a health crisis scapegoat since the tuberculosis outbreak of the 1880s
From the 1918 Spanish flu to coronavirus. In the first years of the 20th century, New York City was in the throes of a tuberculosis hysteria. Although the disease had been an epidemic in the US since the mid-1800s, the rise of germ theory proved, for the first time, that tuberculosis was contagious. …
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