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History
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American experience: influenza 1918 - This Web site
accompanies a film broadcast by the US Public Broadcasting Service
about the influenza outbreak in the United States in 1918, the
so-called "Spanish flu". The site contains a full transcript of
the film and transcripts of interviews with the programme's
participants.
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American Lung Association Crusade - The American Lung
Association is the oldest voluntary public health agency in the
United States. The original name of the ALA was the National
Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (NASPT),
formed in 1904 to combat the deadliest disease of the time.
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Brief History of Tuberculosis - Mycobacterium tuberculosis has
been present in the human population since antiquity - fragments
of the spinal column from Egyptian mummies from 2400 BCE show
definite pathological signs of tubercular decay.
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Cochrane archive - This special section of the University of
Wales College of Medicine Web site records the achievements of
Archibald Leman Cochrane (1909-1988); a doctor based at Llandough
hospital in Cardiff who pioneered the use of randomised controlled
trials (RCTs) with the launch of the Rhondda Fach Scheme in 1950.
The scheme was designed to monitor the health of an entire valley
community and in particular to investigate the connection between
tuberculosis and the miner's disease, pneumoconiosis.
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Coffin nails: the tobacco controversy in the nineteenth century
- This Web site has been created by the American magazine Harper's
Weekly, with a public service objective. The site records Harper's
previous relationship with tobacco products, as depicted in
adverts, cartoons, and other illustrations of the period. The site
highlights some interesting facts about the early origins of the
anti-tobacco movement, which was instigated more than a century
before the U.S. Surgeon General declared that smoking causes
cancer.
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History of Human Tuberculosis - There is evidence that mankind
has suffered from tuberculosis for more than 5,000 years, and
through crowded living conditions, debilitation, and malnutrition,
tuberculosis became epidemic in Western civilization and was a
major cause of mortality.
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History of Tuberculosis Treatment - For centuries health
practitioners were unable to help patients afflicted with
tuberculosis. It was realised as far back as the 16th centruy (Girolamo
Tracastoro) that the disease was contagious.
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Wednesday November 12, 2008
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