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==Historical Perspective==
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The fictional Hunchback of Notre Dame had a gibbous deformity (humpback) similar to the type caused by tuberculosis. In Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House," Dr. Rank suffers from "consumption of the spine." Furthermore, Jocelin, the Dean who wanted a spire on his cathedral in William Golding's "The Spire" probably suffered and died as a result of this disease. English poets [[Alexander Pope]] and William Ernest Henley both suffered from Pott's disease. Anna Roosevelt Cowles, sister of president Theodore Roosevelt, suffered from Pott's Disease. Chick Webb, swing era drummer and band leader, was afflicted with tuberculosis of the spine as a child, which left him hunchbacked. The Sicilian mafia boss Luciano Leggio had Pott's disease and wore a brace. Morton, the railroad magnate in "Once Upon a Time in the West", suffers from the disease and needs crutches to walk. Writer Max Blecher also had Pott's disease. Marxist thinker and Communist leader Antonio Gramsci suffered from Pott's disease, probably due to the bad conditions of his incarceration in fascist Italy during the 1930s. Italian writer, poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi suffered from this disease. It also features prominently in the book ''This Is a Soul'', which chronicles the work of American physician Rick Hodes in Ethiopia.
*[[Pott's disease|Spinal Tuberculosis]] is one of the oldest disease and was found in bone samples from five Iron age individuals recovered from a cemetry in Aymyrlyg, South Siberia. The [[spine]] lesions demonstrated a positive [[DNA]] [[PCR]] amplification for [[mycobacterium bovis]], this shows that the [[infection]] was present 2000 years ago.<ref name="pmid17379733">{{cite journal| author=Taylor GM, Murphy E, Hopkins R, Rutland P, Chistov Y| title=First report of Mycobacterium bovis DNA in human remains from the Iron Age. | journal=Microbiology | year= 2007 | volume= 153 | issue= Pt 4 | pages= 1243-9 | pmid=17379733 | doi=10.1099/mic.0.2006/002154-0 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17379733  }} </ref>
*In 1779, Sir Percival Pott described the classic features of [[Pott's disease|spinal tuberculosis]]: destruction of the [[intervertebral discs]], body of the [[vertebra]] resulting in progressive [[kyphosis]] and named the disease [[Pott's disease]].<ref name="pmid4550865">{{cite journal| author=Dobson J| title=Percivall Pott. | journal=Ann R Coll Surg Engl | year= 1972 | volume= 50 | issue= 1 | pages= 54-65 | pmid=4550865 | doi= | pmc=2388056 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=4550865  }} </ref>


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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aravind Kuchkuntla, M.B.B.S[2]

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Pott's disease is named after Percivall Pott (1714–1788), a London surgeon who trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

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  1. Taylor GM, Murphy E, Hopkins R, Rutland P, Chistov Y (2007). "First report of Mycobacterium bovis DNA in human remains from the Iron Age". Microbiology. 153 (Pt 4): 1243–9. doi:10.1099/mic.0.2006/002154-0. PMID 17379733.
  2. Dobson J (1972). "Percivall Pott". Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 50 (1): 54–65. PMC 2388056. PMID 4550865.

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