A dissertation on osteo-arthritis / by W. H. Russell Forsbrook.

  • Forsbrook, William Henry Russell.
Date:
1893
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Credit: A dissertation on osteo-arthritis / by W. H. Russell Forsbrook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OSTEO-ARTHRITIS. CHAPTER I. H ISTORY. It is now nearly a century since osteo-arthritis was described as an independent malady, as distinct from gout or rheumatism, and it seems remarkable that a condition, so manifest in its fully developed state, should have remained so long undifferentiated; more especially when we consider its antiquity as evidenced by its marks left upon bones collected in Gurot, a town in Lower Egypt, by Mr. Flinders Petrie,^ and having an approximate date, B.C. 1300, and also upon Egyptian bones of the Ptolemaic period collected by Eve.^ Again, signs of it were detected by Della Chiaje^ in bones dug up from among the ruins of Pompeii, and in bones from the catacombs of Paris by Lebert.'^ The same changes were also seen in skele- tons obtained from the graveyard of the ancient 1 Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, i8gi. 2 “Brit, Med. Jour.,” i8go, i., p. 423. 2 “Arthritis deformans from Pompeii,” ii., 555. “ Handbuch der Pract. Med.,” iS5g, ii,, p. 874.