Phthisis
Phthisis (a verbo Graeco φθίσις) aut tuberculosis est frequens et saepe mortifer morbus infectiosus, mycobacteriis variarum specierum, in hominibus plerumque Mycobacterio tuberculosis effectus.

Symptomata phthisis imprimis contagione pulmonum cum tussi, sputo sanguineo nota sunt, sed phthisis non solum pulmones, sed etiam alias corporis partes appetit, cum indiciis morbi febri, sudore nocturno, deminutione ponderis, fatigatione. Communicatur per aerem, cum homines activa tuberculosi infecti tussiunt, sternuunt, vel alioquin salivam per aerem transmittunt. Plurimae infectiones asymptomaticae et latentes sunt, sed una fere e decem infectionibus latentibus postremo in morbum activum commutatur, qui, nisi curatur, plus centesimas hominum infectorum interficit.

Iam anno 460 a.C.n., Hippocrates de phthise scripsit. Hodie novimus causam huius morbi esse bacterium a Roberto Koch, medico Germano, die 24 Martii anno 1882 inventum.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis 

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ut nomen suum indicat, est bacterium cum structuris fungorum (de Graeco μύκης, fungus) similibus, phthisem perficiens. Cum mycobacteria prorsus omnia immobilia tam ab oxygenio pendant, quam ab substantiis organicis, locis destinatis saepius inveniuntur, ut in pulmonibus. Mycobacteria tuberculosis tarde crescunt, a duodecim ad quindecim fere horae ad proximam divisionem necesse sunt, quo fit ut mycobacteria dormientia videri possint. Quin etiam in phagocytis bacteria haec perlonge sine detrimentis maneant.

In aliis animalibus 
Mycobacteria multa animalia varia inficiunt, inter quae aves, rodentia, et reptilia. Subspecies autem Mycobacterii tuberculosis raro in feris videtur. Conatus ad exstirpandam tuberculosim bovinam, Mycobacterio bovis effectam, ex bubus et gregibus cervorum in Nova Zelandia prosper fuit. Similes autem conatus in Magna Britannia facti minus prosperi fuerunt.

Tuberculosis

Epidemiologia 

Terrarum orbe contagio fere immense est: hominum per mycobacterium tuberculosis infecta est circiter tertia pars, ex eis centesimo quindecim in cursibus vitarum suarum in tuberculosem activam incidunt. Praevalentia altissmima in Africa sub-Saharana est (vid. imaginem). Incrementum formarum cum resistentiis multa contra medicamenta observatur. Observatur quoque incrementum incidentiae incrementum numerorum casuum nuntiatorum.

Symptomata et signa 

Symptomata phthisis imprimis contagione pulmonum cum tussi, sputo sanguineo nota sunt, sed phthisis non solum pulmones, sed etiam alias corporis partes appetit, cum indiciis morbi febri, sudore nocturno, deminutione ponderis, fatigatione.

Tractatio 
Quaeque phthisis activa tractanda est. Tractatio phthisis dicta generalia ut hygiene atque medicamenta ut Isoniazidum, Rifampizinum, Pyrazinamidum, Ethambutolum, Streptomycinum includit.

In arte 

Inter scriptores, artifices, musicosque phthisi mortuos, paene omnes iuvenes, sunt Ioannes Boine (1887–1917), Aemilia Brontë (1818–1848), Fridericus Chopin (1810–1849), Antonius Pauli filius Čechov (1860–1904), Georgius Orwell (1903–1950), Sergius Corazzini (1886–1907), Iosephus Giusti (1809–1850), Guido Gozzano (1883–1916), Ioannes Baptista Grazioli (1746–1820), Ioannes Petrus Jacobsen (1847–1885), Ioannes Keats (1795–1821), et Ioannes Baptista Pergolesi (1710–1736). Inter personas in poesi, mythistoria, et fabulis operaticis phthisi moribundas sunt Silvia Iacobi Leopardi, La Dame aux camélias Alexandri Dumas, Violetta in Traviata Iosephi Verdi, Mimi in La Bohème Iacobi Puccini, et Ilju in Fratres Karamazov Theodori Dostoevskij.

Notae

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