结核病是一种古老的疾病,几乎有人的地方就有结核病的存在。在据今7000年以前的石器时代已有结核性疾病。我国中医古籍《内经》中就有“虚痨”症的记载,11世纪,北宋末年更有肺痨由虫引起之说。18世纪中叶,结核病曾成为当时世界上危及人类生命的“第一杀手”。 Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, and tuberculosis exists almost everywhere. In the Stone Age 7000 years ago, there was already a tuberculosis disease. Ancient Chinese medicine in our “Nei Jing” there “virtual 痨” disease records, the 11th century, the Northern Song Dynasty lung disease more caused by the worm said. In the middle of the eighteenth century, tuberculosis became “the number one killer” in the world that endangered human life.