ABSTRACT
Treatment is the centerpiece of all tuberculosis (TB) control effortsadequate and complete treatment that renders the patient permanently noncontagious and unable to transmit the organism to others. The history of TB control dates from 2700 B.C. when the Chinese first began to treat TB, albeit ineffectively, with the dung of animals (1). Efforts to treat TB continued throughout the millennia as each new generation of physicians developed new, although equally unsuccessful, treatments.
