Question: Who came up with a cure for tuberculosis?

context: As the century progressed, some surgical interventions, including the pneumothorax or plombage technique—collapsing an infected lung to "rest" it and allow the lesions to heal—were used to treat tuberculosis. Pneumothorax was not a new technique by any means. In 1696, Giorgio Baglivi reported a general improvement in tuberculosis sufferers after they received sword wounds to the chest. F.H. Ramadge induced the first successful therapeutic pneumothorax in 1834, and reported subsequently the patient was cured. It was in the 20th century, however, that scientists sought to rigorously investigate the effectiveness of such procedures. In 1939, the "British Journal of Tuberculosis" published a study by Oli Hjaltested and Kjeld Törning on 191 patients undergoing the procedure between 1925 and 1931; in 1951, Roger Mitchell published several articles on the therapeutic outcomes of 557 patients treated between 1930 and 1939 at Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake. The search for a medicinal cure, however, continued in earnest.
question: Who induced the first successful therapeutic pneumothorax resulting in a cured tuberculosis patient?
short_answers: F.H. Ramadge
context: In 1944 Albert Schatz, Elizabeth Bugie, and Selman Waksman isolated streptomycin produced by a bacterial strain "Streptomyces griseus." Streptomycin was the first effective antibiotic against "M. tuberculosis". This discovery is generally considered the beginning of the modern era of tuberculosis, although the true revolution began some years later, in 1952, with the development of isoniazid, the first oral mycobactericidal drug. The advent of rifampin in the 1970s hastened recovery times, and significantly reduced the number of tuberculosis cases until the 1980s.
question: Who came up with the first effective antibiotic for tuberculosis?
short_answers: Albert Schatz, Elizabeth Bugie, and Selman Waksman
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question: Who originally tested the first oral mycobactericidal drug on tuberculosis?
short_answers: Walsh McDermott
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question: Who came up with a drug in the 1970s that shortened recovery and reduced cases of tuberculosis?
short_answers: Piero Sensi and Maria Teresa Timbal
Sensi, Timbal
Lepetit Pharmaceuticals
context: The first genuine success in immunizing against tuberculosis was developed from attenuated bovine-strain tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin in 1906. It was called "BCG" ("Bacille Calmette-Guérin"). The BCG vaccine was first used on humans in 1921 in France, but it was not until after World War II that BCG received widespread acceptance in Great Britain, and Germany. In the early days of the British National Health Service X-ray examination for TB increased dramatically but rates of vaccination were initially very low. In 1953 it was agreed that secondary school pupils should be vaccinated, but by the end of 1954 only 250,000 people had been vaccinated. By 1956 this had risen to 600,000, about half being school children.
question: Who came up with the first vaccine immunizing against tuberculosis?
short_answers: Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin

Answer: Throughout history, the disease tuberculosis has been variously known as consumption, phthisis, and the White Plague. F.H. Ramadge induced the first successful therapeutic pneumothorax in 1834, and reported subsequently the patient was cured. The first genuine success in immunizing against tuberculosis was developed from attenuated bovine-strain tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin in 1906. In 1944 Albert Schatz, Elizabeth Bugie, and Selman Waksman isolated streptomycin produced by a bacterial strain "Streptomyces griseus." Streptomycin was the first effective antibiotic against "M. tuberculosis". The first oral mycobactericidal drug on tuberculosis was tested by Walsh McDermott. In the 1970, Lepetit Pharmaceuticals and Piero Sensi and MarMaria Teresa Timbal came up with a drug that shortened recovery and reduced cases of tuberculosis.