HLTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Venetian Lagoon, Pertussis, Bone
Document Summary
Most diseases will not be preserved by archaeological records. Periostitis & osteomyelitis (more chronic version of infection in bone) Periostitis/periotosis (extra plague grown on top of bone) Osteomyelitis: hallow, spongy bone gets penetrated, and reflect chronic infection. Being anemic might be the body"s way to adapt to infectious disease; it withholds iron. An 8,000 year old archaic skeleton showing nutritional deficiencies and infectious disease, and a modern, healthy 5-year-old. the archaic skeleton is 32 1/2 inches tall. Abscess: more severe cavity that spreads to bone. Blood infection leads to systematic body infection, hence death. Kids who have more disease in childhood, they tend to be shorter than kids with no diseases. Mycobaterium leprae: primarily affects nerves, soft tissues, facial bone destruction, extremities (due to trauma usually, earliest evidence (indian medical text): 600 bc. Nasal area gets destroyed because bacteria loves to live in that mucous environment. Soft tissue gets numbed; they don"t feel the pain but the tissue gets inflamed.
