A Child of Sanitariums: A Memoir of Tuberculosis Survival and Lifelong Disability - Paperbackby Gloria Paris (Author) This dramatic memoir recounts one woman's experience with skeletal tuberculosis, which she contracted at the age of five in the 1930s. It recounts her next nine years living in tuberculosis sanatoriums where she underwent many treatments for the disease and was finally released when she was 14. Despite her subsequent disablement, she went on to marry and have three children, work as a micro biologist, perform as a comedienne,