The doctor informed the head of the Shelby clan that he has
X-rays showed a shadow at the base of his skull. He had tuberculoma in his brain stem, a growth caused by the same bacteria as the lung disease, doubtless picked up from daughter Ruby (Orla McDonagh). It wasn't infectious but it was inoperable.
Alas, the tests did reveal a growth in his brain stem that the doctor explains is called Tuberculoma. It is linked to tuberculosis but it is not infectious: this sure sounds like good news! While Tommy won't be passing this onto his loved ones, the precarious positioning of this benign tumour means it is inoperable.
This would come as no surprise, as Tommy once had a fractured skull and serious brain hemorrhage in season 3—not to mention a tough recovery in season 3 episode 5.
Tommy was told the hallucinations, seizures and weakness he had been suffering from was not caused by a gypsy curse as he had previously thought. The doctor informed him the symptoms were of a tuberculoma, a growth caused by the same bacteria as tuberculosis.
Sabini introduces himself to Thomas Shelby by having his men beat him to within an inch of his life, then Sabini opens Tommy's mouth and rips out one of his teeth and cuts his cheek. This is all retaliation for Tommy, Arthur, and John attacking his club, The Eden Club.
The tuberculoma is a rapidly expanding mass on Tommy's brain stem, caused by the same bacterial infection that killed Ruby. It spreads through families, says the doctor, and can be transmitted by a simple kiss.
Tommy was diagnosed with terminal tuberculoma earlier in the season, and in light of this, he tied up all loose ends with his family, naming his illegitimate son as his successor. Following a series of revelations, Tommy discovered that his diagnosis was a ruse, setting the stage for the show's final moments.
It's a logical extreme from a man so obsessively industrious — not to mention it's not unheard of for individuals consumed by their work to ignore healthy eating habits. This is probably why both Murphy and Knight decided to keep going with the gag, so all we ever see Tommy consume are cigarettes and alcohol.
Viewers will remember how Tommy spent much of the season speaking to his dead wife Grace Shelby (Annabelle Wallis) in hallucinations. During these she tried to convince him to kill himself, which is actually a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia rather than trauma.
Thomas suffers from PTSD which was known back then as shellshock syndrome. Most soldiers were/are affected by this and it's harder when they try to reintegrate into society.
My answer is based on what I know about his behaviour in Peaky Blinders. He is always thinking a few steps ahead and he tends to plan everything very detailed. I would say his IQ is somewhere between 120 and 130.
Like, he's sat down at tables, but he's never consumed a morsel." Naturally, the team turned the omission into a 'running gag', which meant that throughout Peaky Blinders, Tommy 'never consumes anything'. With the exception of a 'sprig of mint' the character once tried with his son, of course.
Tommy Shelby's at death's door
Tommy had a fractured skull, concussion, internal bleeding and haemorrhaging.
Will there be a Peaky Blinders season 7? Unfortunately, no, Peaky Blinders season 6 is the final season of the British drama series, but creator Steven Knight confirmed that in place of a seventh season, they're making a Peaky Blinders movie.
Ruby Shelby (played by Orla McDonagh) tragically died in the most recent episode of Peaky Blinders after suffering from tuberculosis. Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) was determined to help his daughter and went off in search of what he thought was the cause of her illness, a gypsy curse.
That whisper is the semi-public admission that Tommy is shaking his blood-stained hands with Duke, and expecting him to carry on his dark deeds.
The whiskey that is drunk in Peaky Blinders is the Gallglennie Whiskey. However, this whiskey does not really exist but it was invented by the makers of the series. By the way, the actors do not drink real whiskey during the filming. Instead of whiskey they use tea.
Cillian Murphy smoked thousands of cigarettes every season.
Smoking is a big part of most scenes, and all of the cigarettes were real. "I asked the prop guys to count how many we use during a series and it's 3,000," Murphy told BirminghamLive.
A tuberculoma is a clinical manifestation of tuberculosis which conglomerates tubercles into a firm lump, and so can mimic cancer tumors of many types in medical imaging studies. They often arise within individuals in whom a primary tuberculosis infection is not well controlled.
The gang were able to control Birmingham and exercise their will for almost twenty years, in one of the largest criminal enterprises of the nineteenth century. As part of their expansion, they extended their criminal portfolio to include smuggling, robbery, bribery, forming protection rackets, fraud and also hijacking.
Tuberculosis of the brain is a rare extrapulmonary infectious disease caused by blood dissemination of M. tb in young, immunosuppressed subjects leading to high mortality. Clinical course tends to be from weeks to months and requires prompt diagnosis and treatment.
However, he pursues and seduces her until things have begun to develop between them. Finally, Polly decides to come for him at night and sleeps with him. Does Thomas know Grace betrayed him? Polly and Thomas realize that Grace betrayed them.
Although it is spread in a similar way to a cold or the flu, TB is not as contagious. You would usually have to spend prolonged periods in close contact with an infected person to catch the infection yourself. For example, TB infections usually spread between family members who live in the same house.
Tuberculomas or tuberculous granulomas are well defined focal masses that result from Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and are one of the more severe morphological forms of tuberculosis. Tuberculomas most commonly occur in the brain (see: CNS tuberculosis) and the lung (see: pulmonary tuberculosis).