RA, also known as Rheumatoid Arthritis, has been there even before. Hippocrates, a famous prehistoric Greek doctor, described a kind of arthritis which begins in mid-age, affects the feet and hands and develops rapidly. He might have been telling rheumatoid arthritis. Some renowned individuals suffered from this condition even before the latest medications were made.
Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner is a 4 time Golden Globe awardee and was an active actress in the early 90’s. Her most popular movie was in year 1984 entitled Romancing the Stone and she starred with Michael Douglas as the leading man. In 1992, Turner was detected with rheumatoid arthritis and serious pain. The restricted action made it almost impossible for Kathleen to work. But the latest rheumatoid arthritis treatments have put her illness into her restrain and this allowed Turner to pursue her career in acting.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre Auguste Renoir is a famous French painter who became famed when 6 of his paintings were featured in the 1874 Impressionist Exhibition. Pierre developed rheumatoid arthritis at the age of fifty. He continued to paint even if he was already in a wheelchair.
Rosalind Russell
Rosalind was best recognized for playing the role Auntie Mame on classical Broadway as well as in the movie of similar title. Oscar nominee and Tony award winner, Rosalind is awarded as the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian honor in the Oscar award. Unluckily, crippling rheumatoid arthritis shortened Rosalind’s career. The United States Congress made the Rosalind Russel Medical Research Center for Arthritis in commemoration to her labor in raising alertness. Study goes on at this point in time because of her hard work.
Dr. Christina Barnard
Christina Barnard is a South African general practitioner who performed the first heart transplant in 1967. Even if his patient survived only eighteen days, it manifested the birth of the procedure which will make Dr. Christian Barnard celebrated from different parts of globe as well as save lots of lives. Nowadays, hundreds of heart surgeries are done each year. He was affected by RA in 1983 that ended his career. He underwent various treatments, but he died in 2001 because of asthma attack.
James Coburn
A typical Hollywood hunk, James Coburn became popular because of doing many action adventure movies such as The Great Escape, The Magnificent as well as Our Man Flint, a James Bond spoof. Over the period of James Coburn’s career, he made over 100 movies. At the age of fifty-one, he was detected with RA. While fighting the illness, James stopped doing movies. Because of the latest innovation in the field of medicine, he overcame this illness and as a matter of fact, he appeared in various movies which include Affliction.
Dorothy Hodgkin
This British scientist developed deforming and severe RA after graduating in 1932 from Oxford. This didn’t stop Dorothy. Hodgkin went on in order to discover the configuration of the penicillin that soon revolutionized the cure of infections. Hodgkin also unraveled the configuration of insulin as well as B12.
