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The Conquest of Tuberculosis 2023

1. PREFACE

2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3. CONTENTS

4. INTRODUCTION

5. Part I. EARLY HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS. EMPIRICAL METHODS OF TREATMENT

1. Since Time Immemorial Man Has Been Afflicted by a Dreadful Disease, Variously Known as Phthisis, Scrofula, Consumption, and Tuberculosis

2. Tuberculosis in Literature and in the Arts

3. Infectious Nature of Tuberculosis Early Attempts at Treatment

9. Part II. TUBERCULOSIS IN MODERN TIMES

4. The Diagnosis of Tuberculosis. Laennec Discovers the Stethoscope. Subsequent Discoveries

5. Villemin and Koch Establish the Role of the Tuberculosis Organism as the Causative Agent. Further Attempts at Prevention and Treatment

12. Part III. CHEMOTHERAPY, CONTROL, AND FINAL CONQUEST OF TUBERCULOSIS

6. The Advent of Antibiotics

7. Streptomycin and the Beginnings of True Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis

8. Personal Experiences of Effectiveness of Streptomycin on Tuberculous Meningitis and Other Forms of Tuberculosis

9. New Antibiotics and Antituberculous Synthetic Compounds Supplement Streptomycin

10. The Conquest of Tuberculosis

18. BIBLIOGRAPHY

19. INDEX