This is strange. TB is often associated with the vampire superstition.
Simon Whipple Aldrich
Birth 1814
Death 6 May 1841 (aged 26–27)
Inscription
Though Consumption's vampire grasp had seized thy mortal frame, Thy ardent and inspiring mind, untouched, remained the same.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=49630850
The Great New England Vampire Panic
Smithonian Magazine October 2012
http://sciliterature.50webs.com/VampirePanic.htm
https://sciliterature.50webs.com/TB.htm