Tuberculosis - in the past and the present

About forty years back Tuberculosis was an abominable and incurable disease for the common people. Even movie pictures showed that newer drugs were discovered in a foreign country that cured the heroine’s tuberculosis! Sanatorium treatment was advocated then. The children were warned about this ‘jailed treatment’ and not to have contact with tuberculosis affected people!

Nowadays tuberculosis treatment is available at door step. Sanatoria are vacant, or have been converted into other medical facilities: patients continue to do their jobs while taking anti-tuberculosis medicines. The new born child is also assured of its right to have all the immunizations – by giving it first BCG vaccine against Tuberculosis!

Tuberculosis treatment and its control are wonders among the treatment of diseases.

Tuberculosis Susceptible people

Tuberculosis has ceased to be the disease of the poor and rural people. Now anyone, even the affluent people can get it by being weak in their immunity through their acquiring HIV+ status and then by moving freely with the tuberculosis patients. They are well aware about tuberculosis (and about its cure by DOTS medicines) but are careless about it. They need counseling both for preventing HIV and Tuberculosis and treating them, in case they contracted them.

Tuberculosis Treatment

Here in India people are well aware of Tuberculosis and availability of curative treatment for it. They move freely and boldly everywhere knowing all about the symptoms of the disease, the places of sputum examination and the presence of treatment providers at their own villages. They even know about the medicines of 'Directly Observed Therapy, Short - Course (DOTS)'! They understand here Short -Course as a period of six months!

View: Tuberculosis Division of Government of India

Deadly Strain of bacteria - a wonder!

The presence of a deadly strain of tuberculosis causing bacilli in a patient at Phoenix of Arizona has been reported in dailies around 13th July 2007. Here, in India Medical fraternity are treating successfully even the multidrug resistant-tuberculosis effectively with the available higher drugs.
This deadly strain must be a WONDER in that it could not be killed at this era of Modern medicine!

The Summary and the Invitations

The wonders in the structural arrangement, its stories, purpose and the conjectures about the Stone Henges, and the related topics were placed here in this blog. Viewers and readers could have their own conjectures and opinions about the Stone Henges, and also personal experiences about related wonders in their countries, or in their urban or suburban places. They are invited to express or share them here. Historians, Archaeologists, Astronomers and all those interested in Stone Henges may co-operate and do research – to unravel the secrets revolving around the WONDER, the Stone Henges that were ‘created’ by and due to, the long gap of centuries.

Read also/again in the 'Older posts' following this presently read post to get all the views expressed by me in this blog about the StoneHenges!

Architectural wonders and the Stone Henges

The Gandhi Memorial building in Kanyakumari of India is uniquely designed. Inside it each year on the birthday of Mahatma Gandhiji (October 2nd) sunrays fall on the place where his ashes were kept (for immersion in the seas) through a hole on the roof! Likewise sunlight also enters into the inner sanctum sanctorum of a Pillaiyar (Elephant -faced God) temple at Uppur of South Tamilnadu on the east coast (near Rameshwaram). It happens only at certain festival day!
These are architectural WONDERS like that of the Stone Henges!
View and read in:Kanyakumari of India

The Rock Memorial and the Stone Henges

Vivekananda Rock Memorial is at Kanyakumari of India. The top of eastern parapet wall of this memorial presents some markings: Sun's yearly deviations on its sojourn overhead from East to the West from season to season have been represented by stone line carvings. With such similar lines of astronomical precision the Stone Henges might have been planned and erected by the Druids!
View and read also in:Vivekananda Rock Memorial

Kanyakumari Legend and Stone Henges

At Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of India, there is a confluence of three Seas. There a legend goes in praise of the Goddess: the crew of the ships arriving there mistook the light emanating from the nose ring of the Goddess in the temple, as that of a light-house and their ships crashed against the rocks of the shore. The Druids were also attracted by the Sun to build the Stone Henges in wise way to harness its power!

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Kanyakumari Temple

Jantar Mantar and the Stone Henges

At Jantar Mantar in Jaipur of India, astronomical structures were built in the early 18th century to verify Astronomical observations and to stimulate interest in Astronomy. They stand like Stone Henges. But before 2000 BC, Druids had used the Stone Henges built with their astronomical knowledge, to harness the power of Sun! That is the WONDER in it!
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Jantar Mantar of Jaipur