On This Day In History - November 8, 1887: John Henry "Doc" Holliday Dies Of Tuberculosis

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[DogByte6RER]

R.I.P. Doc...

[DogByte6RER]

Holliday's dental school graduation photo, age 20, 1872

[theDentist]

Thanks, Doc, for that list of tips you passed on to Dentists everywhere. Using them, we have sown fear at the very mention of the profession.

[DogByte6RER]

Autographed photo of Holliday taken in 1879 in Prescott, Arizona

[sinanju]

“Ah know it ain’t easy, bein’ my friend Wyatt, but I’ll be there for you when you need me...”

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Great movie. I had never known anything about Earp’s backstory, but it did inspire me to do some reading.

[llevrok]

Doc,
You're my huckleberry!

[DogByte6RER]

Supposed photo of Holliday in Tombstone, AZ. 1882.

[stevio]

How do you get tuberculosis? Couldn’t he have given it to his patients?

[DogByte6RER]

lol I think this dentist is applying the "Doc" Holliday technique on this patient.

[Rummyfan]

One of the original live hard, die young men.....

[DogByte6RER]

Film clips of “Doc” Holliday portrayed by Val Kilmer in the movie Tombstone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yDgkvWh3JQ

[drc43]

By all accounts, he was a good friend.... hard to find these days.

[DogByte6RER]

When somebody who has TB is contagious, the virus is passed when the sufferer coughs and the virus is transferred through the air. “Doc” Holliday may have contracted the TB virus from one of his dental patients (who coughed near Holliday while he performed dental work.) Of course, Holliday probably passed on the TB virus to a variety of others. Back then, very little was known about viruses and how TB spread.

[theDentist]

You are correct. Note the forefinger, held as you would a finger on the trigger, the "snake eyes" allowing him to concentrate on the target, and though you cannot hear it, the dentist's lips in a typical "extraction hiss" providing a constant equal pressure opun the "bad" tooth, while grinding the supporting tooth as well.

Sometimes it's so exciting we need the nurse immediately...

[Califreak]

Thanks for posting this. I sent it to hubby, because we were discussing this very thing last night when we heard about the recent spike in TB.

[llevrok]

Kilmer was downright spooky in that role! Fantastic

[llevrok]

Kilmer was downright spooky in that role! Fantastic

[backhoe]

TB is nasty stuff:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tuberculosis.html
Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by a germ called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs, but they can also damage other parts of the body...

I remember cringing when reading about a case of tuberculosis of the testicles, decades ago...

[ClearCase_guy]

I think Kilmer has a reputation as a stuck-up jerk in real life — but I don’t care. I always enjoy his work, and to the best of my knowledge, he doesn’t pass himself off as a political pundit.

[stevio]

It was probably a good thing he gave up dentistry.