 Sheets"; in opera, as in Puccini's "La bohème" and Verdi's "La Traviata"; in art, as in Monet's painting of his first wife Camille on her deathbed; and in film, such as the 1945 "The Bells of St. Mary's" starring Ingrid Bergman as a nun with tuberculosis.The disease also appears in fields such as anime and manga.Tuberculosis, known variously as consumption, phthisis, and the great white plague, was long thought to be associated with poetic and artistic qualities in its sufferers, and was also known as "the romantic disease".