| Tuberculosis is caused by the bacteria
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| | returned home cured and began to study
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| Mycobacterium Tuberculosis present even
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| | medicine focusing on Tuberculosis.
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| in mummies lasting from over 3000 years
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| | In 1865 the French doctor Villemin
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| ago. Hippocrates called it "phthisis"
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| | explained the existence of an infection
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| meaning consumption and explained it is a
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| | causing microorganism and the possibility
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| very common and almost in all cases
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| | of disease transfer from man to cattle
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| deadly condition. Hippocrates even dared
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| | and rabbits. He proved Tuberculosis did
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| to warn his physician colleagues not to
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| | not appear spontaneously in every person.
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| visit patients in last stages of
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| | Robert Koch discovered 1882 a microscopic
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| Tuberculosis as it might harm their
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| | way to see Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.
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| reputation.
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| | After his discovery the treatment for the
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| Sylvius described in his writings the
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| | condition began to develop. Nutritional
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| injuries caused by Mycobacterium in the
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| | diets, rest and improved environment were
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| lungs and other organs, as well as their
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| | the targets of sanatoriums appeared all
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| evolution to cavities and abscesses.
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| | over Europe and America; these institutes
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| 1702 Manget described the
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| | offered a healthy atmosphere for the
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| ethiopathogenesis of milliary
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| | patients and also isolated them from the
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| Tuberculosis. Italian documents informed
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| | healthy population.
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| the population of the danger that lies in
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| | The hope for a treatment increased when
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| not burning the objects of the dead
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| | the Italian physician Forlanini quoted
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| patients as Tuberculosis proved to be a
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| | that a pulmonary collapse might improve
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| contagious condition.
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| | the condition. Therapeutic pneumothorax
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| The English doctor Benjamin Marten wrote
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| | began to be induced and surgical methods
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| the" Theory of Consumption" in which he
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| | were found to decrease the volume of the
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| explained the existence of bacterial
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| | lungs.
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| organisms causing the lung lesions and
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| | Another step forward was Roentgen's
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| the capacity of transmission to another
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| | discovery of the X-rays that permitted
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| person. Only the prolonged contact with a
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| | the dynamic observation of the evolution
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| sick patient could make one catch the
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| | of Tuberculosis and the caused lesions in
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| disease.
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| | the lungs. When Calmette and Guerin
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| Sanatoriums began to appear over night to
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| | invented the BCG vaccine purified from a
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| assure patients dietary food and rest
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| | Mycobacterium Bovis fragment, the
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| after a botany student quoted
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| | susceptibility to Tuberculosis decreased.
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| "Tuberculosis is a curable disease". He
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| | Finally in the 1940's Chemotherapy with
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| was himself infected with Tuberculosis
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| | antibiotics anti Tuberculosis came to
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| and went to the Himalaya Mountains to
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| | light and Tuberculosis became a totally
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| change the climate as instructed by his
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| | curable condition if treated in time.
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| physician. The student Hermann Brehmer
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