Susanta Ghosh

I,Dr Susanta Ghosh,a poor physician of Tuberculosis like to state one or two words here.I started to read the introduction of the book at the very outset with eagerness, but the words of Pharmacological products used were repealing which proves pernicious ignorance about basic definition of antibiotics e.g. " The indiscriminate use of consumption of antibiotics during the pandemics( ivermectin, dexamethasone,hydroxychloroqine,favipiravir, Azithromycin etc )has reached a whole new level of abuse..........". After learning all antiworm, steroid,antiviral as antibiotics I am having a dream of horror as if I was being treated by a quack. Moreover history of Tuberculosis in India goes back to 10,000 B C to 5000 B C .We are acquainted with the word Yakshma especially Raja Yakshma in Vedic scriptures mostly in Atharva Vedas. In absence of any smear, culture, TRUNAT, CBNAAT as we use nowadays the Vedic teachers of Medicine described,diagnosed and treated those patients in this land within their capacity to stand beside those helpless victims.. History should start from this point.The subject of Tuberculosis (Yakshma) in Charak and Sushrut samhita may be mentioned at their timelines of ancient India.