Tuberculosis is a chronic or acute infection caused by the bacteria mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB was commonly called consumption due to the disease wasting away your body; It attacks the lungs, kidneys and lymph nodes. It is called the people’s disease because of the amount of people it infected and society romanticizing it for its prevalence. It was said that individuals infected with TB looked attractive because they looked “sensitive”. The poor suffered the most from the infection due to the close proximity of high density residences in large cities. The disease was spread through coughing, sneezing, and spitting. It was a common belief that spending time in nature would help cure patients of sickness; the fresh air would cleanse the body. While there were some cases, there were no scientific conclusions to the idea. Before it could be concluded, much of the population moved west to become apart of new cities and become healthy in their new healthy environment. This only lead to very sick cities all over the west. It was only in 1943 there was the first treatment created called streptomycin. Streptomycin worked extremely effectively for a short period of time but the disease would come back even stronger than before. Multi Drug Resistant TB (MDR) and Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) TB were resistant forms of TB to the many antibiotics given to patients. Only combinations of different drugs would be able to combat TB. If TB keeps becoming resistant, it will come back with even more death than its previous strain.