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| - | <box width centre|> Figure 2. Scientists contributing to the theory of Tuberculosis. {{ :scientists.jpg?500|}}</box|> | + | <box width centre|> Figure 2. Scientists who contributed to the theory of Tuberculosis. {{ :scientists.jpg?500|}}</box|> |
| In 1948 BC, ancient text by the Babylonian monarch Hammurabi mentions a chronic lung disease that is likely TB (Herzog, 1998). Next, Famous Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), proposed the concept of pulmonary phthisis (tuberculosis) as a common disease that usually leads to death, however he believed that it was hereditary. Later, Galen (131-201) was the first person to suspect that phthisis was contagious, and warned against intimate contact with those who are sick. | In 1948 BC, ancient text by the Babylonian monarch Hammurabi mentions a chronic lung disease that is likely TB (Herzog, 1998). Next, Famous Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), proposed the concept of pulmonary phthisis (tuberculosis) as a common disease that usually leads to death, however he believed that it was hereditary. Later, Galen (131-201) was the first person to suspect that phthisis was contagious, and warned against intimate contact with those who are sick. | ||
