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Tuberculosis affected the world population since ancient times and known to Hippocratic physicians. It was not completely understood, and it was difficult to manage. From the eighteenth century onwards it became highly devastating with a high sociological impact until Robert Koch (1843-1910) identified the pathogenic agent of tuberculosis,...
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... you have removed as much pus as you think appropriate, plug the wound with a tent of raw linen, and tie it with a cord; draw off pus once a day; on the tenth day, draw all the pus, and plug the wound with linen. Then make an infusion of warm wine and oil with a tube, in order that the lung, accustomed to being soaked with pus, will not be suddenly The bellied scalped figures in a relief from the temple of Asclepios in Athens are shown in Figure 4 (second from left to right). A similar procedure was indicated to treat suppurations arising from wounds, pneumonia, and massive defluxions, and when a lung falls against the side (Hippocrates in Potter, 1988: 55-57). ...
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Currently, COVID-19 is perceived as an epidemic, a new «plague», referring to the matrix metaphor of the pestis expressed in the series contagion – death – fear – isolation. This article aims to understand the multiple collective challenges posed by plague epidemics. The analysis of these challenges may contribute to the reflection on several dimensions that shape the COVID-19 pandemic threat. Individuals interpret the different pasts aiming to solve the problems they face in the present. The collective challenges that the political and medical «management» of the plague place are shaped by circumstantial coalitions of diverse interests, enabling the recognition, demarcation, and legitimisation of actions regarding its public management and control, materialised in concrete health policies, such as the development of several specific devices (isolation, health cordons, lazarettos, quarantine), thus intervening in the configuration of «collective management» of epidemics. Received: 20 November 2020 / Accepted: 22 March 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021
