Editing Arthritis (section)

== History ==
Evidence of osteoarthritis and potentially inflammatory arthritis has been discovered in dinosaurs.<ref name="DeLisaGans2005">{{cite book| vauthors = DeLisa JA, Gans BM, Walsh NE |title=Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1sWk1GYCvKoC&pg=PA765|year=2005|publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|isbn=978-0-7817-4130-9|pages=765–|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108193339/https://books.google.com/books?id=1sWk1GYCvKoC&pg=PA765|archive-date=8 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Blumberg BS, Sokoloff L | title = Coalescence of caudal vertebrae in the giant dinosaur Diplodocus | journal = Arthritis and Rheumatism | volume = 4 | issue = 6 | pages = 592–601 | date = December 1961 | pmid = 13870231 | doi = 10.1002/art.1780040605 | doi-access =  }}</ref> The first known traces of human arthritis date back as far as 4500 BC. In early reports, arthritis was frequently referred to as the most common ailment of prehistoric peoples.<ref name="Bridges ">{{cite journal | vauthors=Bridges PS | title=Prehistoric Arthritis in the Americas | journal=Annual Review of Anthropology | year=1992| volume=21 |pages=67–91 | doi=10.1146/annurev.an.21.100192.000435}}</ref> It was noted in skeletal remains of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] found in [[Tennessee]] and parts of what is now [[Olathe, Kansas]]. Evidence of arthritis has been found throughout history, from [[Ötzi the Iceman|Ötzi]], a [[mummy]] ({{circa|3000 BC}}) found along the border of modern [[Italy]] and [[Austria]], to the Egyptian mummies {{Circa|2590 BC}}.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.news-medical.net/health/Arthritis-History.aspx | title = Arthritis History | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100130200315/http://www.news-medical.net/health/Arthritis-History.aspx | archive-date=30 January 2010 | work = Medical News | date = 2 December 2009 }}</ref>

In 1715, [[William Musgrave]] published the second edition of his most important medical work, ''De arthritide symptomatica'', which concerned arthritis and its effects.<ref name=ODNB>{{cite book | vauthors = Cameron A | chapter = Musgrave, William (1655–1721) | title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = September 2004 }}</ref> Augustin Jacob Landré-Beauvais, a 28-year-old resident physician at Salpêtrière Asylum in France was the first person to describe the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Though Landré-Beauvais' classification of rheumatoid arthritis as a relative of gout was inaccurate, his dissertation encouraged others to further study the disease.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Entezami P, Fox DA, Clapham PJ, Chung KC | title = Historical perspective on the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis | journal = Hand Clinics | volume = 27 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–10 | date = February 2011 | pmid = 21176794 | pmc = 3119866 | doi = 10.1016/j.hcl.2010.09.006 }}</ref>

[[John Charnley]] completed the first hip replacement (total hip arthroplasty) in England to treat arthritis in the 1960s.