Europe: Middle Ages and Renaissance
During the Middle Ages, no significant advances were made regarding tuberculosis. Avicenna and Rhazes continued to consider to believe the disease was both contagious and difficult to treat. Arnaldus de Villa Nova described etiopathogenic theory directly related to that of Hippocrates, in which a cold humor dripped from the head into the lungs.
In the Medieval Hungary many notes of the inquisition were taken while pagans were judged in trials, and one of them from the 12th century contained a very extensive explanation of the cause of illness. The judged pagans affirmed that the turbeculosis was produced when a dog shaped demon occupied the person's body and started to eat his lungs. When the possessed person coughed, then the demon was barking; and getting close to his objective, which was to kill the victim.
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