Talk:History of tuberculosis

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Recent research shows that M tb did not descend from M bovis and is at least several hundred thousand years old. The first section needs a rewrite.

Verification needed
While the Huangdi neijing reference from Elvin et al. 1998:521-2 does mention xulao bing 虛癆病, the Chinese text does not use lao 癆. It does individually use the lao loan character 勞, xu, and bing, but not together. It also refers to a disease named laofeng 勞風 but the symptoms are different from Elvin's. According to all the sources I checked, lao 癆 first occurred in the Shuowen jiezi as a regional word meaning "poison in medicine". Does anyone know if xulao bing is found in a different edition of or commentary to the Huangdi neijing? Google Books shows page 521 but not 522, which might answer this question. Keahapana (talk) 00:35, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Omission: Professor Sir John Crofton
It seems strange that there is no mention of Professor Crofton in this survey, as he developed the standard treatment for TB and worked tirelessly to promulgate good practice throughout the developing world. To quote the Telegraph:

Sir John Crofton, who died on November 3 aged 97, pioneered one of the great medical breakthroughs of the 20th century when he led a team of scientists which developed a cure for tuberculosis by using a combination of three antibiotics; the "Edinburgh Method", as it became known, saved millions of lives and provided a model for similar combination therapies used in the treatment of illnesses such as cancer and HIV. Gcaplan~enwiki (talk) 11:10, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

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Why is the execution of people mentioned in treatments
> During the Nazi occupation of Poland, SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Koppe organized the execution of more than 30,000 Polish patients suffering from tuberculosis - little knowing or caring that a cure was nearly at hand.

I don't believe killing somebody with a disease can be listed as a treatment method. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.217.245.181 (talk) 16:36, 31 May 2018 (UTC)