Throughout history, the disease tuberculosis has been variously known as consumption, phthisis, and the White Plague. It is generally accepted that the causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis originated … 查看更多內容

Ancient India
The first references to tuberculosis in non-European civilization is found in the Vedas. The oldest of … 查看更多內容

In South America, reports of a study in August 2014 revealed that TB had likely been spread via seals that contracted it on beaches of Africa, from humans via domesticated … 查看更多內容

Scientific work investigating the evolutionary origins of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex has concluded that the most recent … 查看更多內容

In 2008, evidence for tuberculosis infection was discovered in human remains from the Neolithic era dating from 9,000 years ago, in Atlit Yam, a settlement in the eastern … 查看更多內容

Hippocrates, in Book 1 of his Of the Epidemics, describes the characteristics of the disease: fever, colourless urine, cough resulting in a thick sputa, and loss of thirst and appetite. He notes that most of those affected became delirious before they died from the … 查看更多內容

During the Middle Ages, no significant advances were made regarding tuberculosis. Avicenna and Rhazes continued to … 查看更多內容