Consumption Claimed One in Seven Through all Time

   The White Plague, sometimes even called the Great White Plague was the COVID-19 of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Entering the 19th Century it was estimated that Consumption -- as it was also called -- had taken one in seven of all humans who had ever lived.
   Today, we know it simply as tuberculosis.
   Ask COVID-19 if it is so deadly. Across a two-year span, will it kill one in seven? And, supposing it does, consider that Consumption averaged such a pace from the dawn of time through the 19th century.
   It was called the "white" plague because of the paleness it brought its patients.