Volume 31, Number 3—March 2025
Another Dimension
Portraying Tuberculosis through Western Art, 1000–2000 CE
Figure 6

Figure 6. Sick Girl is an oil painting by Christian Krohg detailing the familiar heartache experienced by many of losing loved ones to tuberculosis. Public domain digital image.
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