[Incapacitating spinal curvature in a skeleton discovery from the Middle Ages (7th/8th to the beginning of the 9th century). A case of probable spondylitis tuberculosa].
A case is presented of disability due to spondylitis of probable tuberculous etiology found in a skeleton from the early Middle Ages in Switzerland. It is suggested that the young woman had not been rejected from her family community or kinship because of her invalidity, as is thought to have often been the rule at that time.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D007738:Kyphosis / Q000266:history*; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000266:history*
Invalidisierende Wirbelsäulenverkrümmung an einem Skelettfund aus dem Frühmittelalter (7./8. bis Anfang 9. Jh.). Ein Fall einer wahrscheinlichen Spondylitis tuberculosa.