The "devil" in the joints
In 1799, a cartoonist from England, James Gerry, created a cartoon in which a man's thumbs up toes were swollen and deformed, and a vicious little demon unceremoniously bit his red and swollen feet, which he described as a torturous disease- arthritis.
Arthritis comics
In fact, this disease has plagued mankind for thousands of years, and even the pharaohs of ancient Egypt were victims of this disease.
Ancients treat arthritis "home remedies"
The big toe joints of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Joseph were often red, swollen and painful, like countless ants biting. Watching the miserable pharaoh carry him out of the house every day, his imperial physician Imhotep, on the Mediterranean coast, found an ancient plant to cure the pharaoh, which was the autumn daffodil.
Autumn daffodils
Autumn Narcissus can only play a role in alleviating the pain of arthritis, and cannot cure the symptoms and causes. What's even more frightening is that if it is over-taken, it is likely to cause symptoms of poisoning.
arthritis
In order to treat arthritis, people try all kinds of strange ways. What is the most evil thing? I don't know who came out that mummies can cure diseases, but this is good, and some people even go to dig up mummies and crush mummies into powder for treatment.
mummy
Our ancient Chinese also have a unique "secret recipe" for the treatment of arthritis, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" once mentioned that taking soil poria can achieve the effect of "rheumatism to go to the muscles and bones". Interestingly, the chinese medicine of Poria tu has since crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, spread to the West, and even became the "Oriental Miracle Medicine" of Charles V.
Unfortunately, the soil poria still could not cure arthritis, and Charles V died of regret under the torment of the disease. Although his arthritis was not cured, his imperial doctor made an important contribution to human understanding of arthritis in the process of treatment.
Charles V
This imperial physician, known as the originator of anatomy, Andre Vesari, through dissection, detailed the structure of the human body's bones, joints and other structures, and in 1543, released the representative work of modern anatomy " Human Structure".
Andrea Vesalius
When arthritis "walks" into the operating room
On the basis of understanding the structure of human bones and joints, in 1860, the French doctor Vannayer put forward a bold idea, that is, through surgery, the joint cartilage that occurred in the defect was replaced, which is what we now know - joint replacement.
Vannayeh
However, Vannayer's method did not succeed in his early experiments, and another treatment also appeared in the process of treating arthritis at this time.
In 1948, american doctor Philip Hench used adrenocortical hormones to treat patients who had been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis for five years, and after three days of injections, patients who could only rely on wheelchairs began to get better, and after seven days of injection treatment, patients could already stand up and walk! As a result, such hormone therapy has gradually been popularized in the treatment of middle and early arthritis.
Philip Hench
In 1962, the infection rate of artificial joint replacement surgery was greatly reduced due to the use of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene as an artificial joint material. Since then, this low-friction artificial joint replacement surgery has quickly spread in medical applications and has become a common procedure for the treatment of mid- and end-stage arthritis.
Joint replacement