Help docs? why is tuberculosis called as romantic disease?

Long story: In the early 1800's, the beginning of the romantic era (focus on young people, angst, emotions, glamorizing things), there was also a lot of TB, which causes people in the prime of health to languish and fade away. Jack Keats (real life) and Camille (fiction) died "romantic" deaths. When cholera rather than TB became the great killer, disease was suddenly no longer romantic.