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The lungs appeared to be full of small spots: miliary tuberculosis, an uncommon and dangerous form of the disease.

Wolfe, who died of miliary tuberculosis at the age of 37, was a North Carolina native who drew heavily on his own life to write his poetic prose.

The chest X-ray above shows miliary tuberculosis - a form of TB where the disease has spread around the body in a manner that is said to look like a scattering of millet seeds.

The tuberculous inflammation was regarded as a primary condition, while the acute miliary tuberculosis was a secondary process resulting from infection.

An autopsy discovered that the cause of death was miliary tuberculosis, a rare form of the disease in which the TB bacilli spread through the bloodstream and infect multiple organs.