Lo zolfo nella prevenzione della tubercolosi polmonare e del colera. La caduta di un'illusione (2018)
Cerasoli, Giancarlo (Author)
Atti e Memorie, Rivista di Storia della Farmacia
Volume: 35
Issue: 3
Pages: 219-224
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the rising branch of «occupational medicine» had scientifically demonstrated the acute and chronic harmfulness on the respiratory apparatus of the inhalation of sulfur powders, sulfur dioxide and other gases found in mines. Paradoxically, until the end of the nineteenth century many doctors were convinced that sulfur inhaled by miners could be a protective factor against pulmonary tuberculosis. This opinion was based on the therapeutic properties of sulfur, which was considered effective in treating cutaneous and respiratory diseases and was also proposed as a “preventive” for pulmonary tuberculosis and cholera. Researches carried out in Italy in 1857 showed the ineffectiveness of sulfur in preserving from cholera. After the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis was isolated by Koch in 1882, it was possible to search for it in the sputum of miners and, through autopsy, in their lungs - and it became clear that they had a higher prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis than the general population and other categories of workers.
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