Editing Tuberculosis (section)

=== Names ===

Tuberculosis has been known by many names from the technical to the familiar.<ref name="Lawlor" /> {{Lang|grc-latn|Phthisis}} ({{Lang|grc|φθίσις}}) in ancient Greek translates to ''decay'' or ''wasting disease'', presumed to refer to pulmonary tuberculosis;<ref>{{Citation |title=φθίσις |date=2025-02-26 |work=Wiktionary, the free dictionary |url=https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%86%CE%B8%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82 |access-date=2025-04-16 |language=en}}</ref> around 460 BCE, [[Hippocrates]] described phthisis as a disease of dry seasons.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hippocrates 3.16 Classics, MIT |url=https://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/aphorisms.mb.txt |access-date=15 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050211173218/http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/aphorisms.mb.txt |archive-date=11 February 2005}}</ref> The abbreviation ''TB'' is short for ''tubercle [[Bacillus (shape)|bacillus]]''. ''Consumption'' was the most common nineteenth century English word for the disease, and was also in use well into the twentieth century.<ref name="Chambers_1998" /> The Latin root {{Lang|la|con}} meaning 'completely' is linked to {{Lang|la|sumere}} meaning 'to take up from under'.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Caldwell M |title=The Last Crusade|date=1988|publisher=Macmillan|location=New York|isbn=978-0-689-11810-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780689118104/page/21 21]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780689118104/page/21}}</ref> In ''[[The Life and Death of Mr Badman]]'' by [[John Bunyan]], the author calls consumption "the captain of all these men of death."<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Bunyan J |date=1808 |title=The Life and Death of Mr. Badman|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeanddeathmrb01bunygoog |quote=captain. |page=[https://archive.org/details/lifeanddeathmrb01bunygoog/page/n238 244] |location=London |publisher=W. Nicholson |via=Internet Archive |access-date=28 September 2016}}</ref> "Great white plague" has also been used.<ref name="Lawlor" />