the room full of crazy probably wouldn't help in that regard.

(i read it as the poison or whatever he got her with damaged the crap out of her lungs, imitating the effects of tuberculosis. sort of like 'thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?')

(there's also a lot of clockwork/machinery riffs in the soundtrack. given the lavish and detailed shots of machinery in the movie, it's actually kind of neat.)