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Tuber Tubercule Tuberculin Tuberculosis Tuberculum Tuberous Sclerosis
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ TUBER  id+ | PROMINENCE |     
         id+ | POTATO LIKE | 
               SWELLING    see> TUMOR
~ TUBERCULE    SINGLE TUBER  
~ TUBERCULIN    or 
~ TUBERCULOSIS  TBC or 
                id+ | PHTHISIS |   
~ TUBERCULUM    MANY TUBERCULA 
~ TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS  or 
                      med> DISORDER characterized by 
  id+ | KNOB LIKE FIBROUS TUBERCULA |  
  med> TUBERCULOSIS is a complex 
       BACTERIAL INFECTION by 
  TUBERCLE BACILLUS or MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS or 
  M BOVIS OFTEN CAUSING PULMONARY NODE or 
  TUBER LIKE LESIONS 
  med> TUBERCULINE IS A STERILE SOLUTION 
       CONTAINING GROWTH PRODUCTS FROM 
  CULTURES OF THE MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS 
  INTRODUCED BY R KOCH [#] IN 1890 WITH THE 
  FAILED HOPE THAT IT WOULD BE CURATIVE  
  INSTEAD TUBERULINE CAUSES AN ALLERGIC REACTION  
  USEFUL AS A SKIN TEST FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS 
  OF TBC INFECTIONS 
  hx> A "WASTING DISEASE" thus formerly known as 
      see> PHTHISIS          
  med> TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS is caused by 
       A GENETIC AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT MUTATION 
  CAUSING THE GROWTH OF MULTIPLE TUBER LIKE 
  NEOPLASTIC NODES as well as a variety of 
  TRULY MALIGNANT CANCERS  
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