Category: Institutional Secrecy

• The "Tuberculosis" Sanatorium "Harvest"

  This theory claimed that tuberculosis patients in sanatoriums were not simply being isolated and treated, but were being exploited after death for material use, including the lurid idea that bodies or body fat were rendered into “medical tallow.” The theory belongs to a broader family of hospital and corpse-harvest rumors that attached themselves to institutions with high death rates, secretive disposal practices, and limited public access. In the tuberculosis context, sanatorium isolation, body transport systems, and the sheer scale of mortality made such stories particularly durable.