Object of the Month: August 2021
Object of the Month: August 2021 Pneumothorax After Küss, Waldek and Wagner, Prague, around 1925 The BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) tuberculosis vaccine was introduced to medical practice in the 1920s. Only in the 1940s were antibiotics employed to cure the disease: beginning with a combination of streptomycin, para-aminosalicylic acid and isoniazid. In previous decades, physicians treated tuberculosis […]