Whom took tuberculosis

Today, tuberculosis is not only a national, but also an international public health problem. According to the WHO, every second in the world one person becomes infected with tuberculosis; The third population of the globe is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. These data confirm the importance of a detailed study of this problem, starting with the beginnings of history. There is an old long-proven truth: one cannot know the present without knowing the past. Therefore, we should consider the history of the development of the study of tuberculosis - one of the most interesting and sometimes dramatic pages in the history of medicine. It has long been believed that tuberculosis is a disease exclusively of the lower strata of society, but having turned to the origins of history, it becomes clear that at all times different strata of the population were affected, sparing no one in their path. In our scientific work, we want to highlight what a great trace tuberculosis left in the history of the formation of social thought, in world culture.