ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The White Plague, Percivall Pott, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
31 Aug 2016
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White plague or tb leaves evidence on bone. Note proliferative growth on upper margin, plus destruction on lower margin. Much anthropological interest in it because it is one of the few disease that can be diagnosed in bone. Spinal collapse rst described by percival pott. Spinal lesions and kuphosis, usually in lower back pott"s disease . Involved in 25-50% of case of skeletal tb. Skeletal evidence for tb has been found in many parts of the world. The only people that seem to have been free of it were the maori of new zealand. No unequivocal evidence found in paleolithic (i. e. before 10,000years) Skeletal evidence for at least 6000 years (i. e. 3000 to 5000bce) When clinical and pathological description of disease developed that referred to speci c degenerative changes and. Characteristic lesions tubercle = lump or nodule. Disease is being understood in terms of a speci c symptom. Moved locus of attention from individual (consumptive) to body part (tubercle)
