Søren Kierkegaard may have died from Pott disease, according to professor Kaare Weismann and literature scientist Jens Staubrand
Chick Webb, a swing-era drummer and band leader, was affected by tuberculosis of the spine as a child, which left him hunchbacked, and eventually caused his death. The Sicilian mafia boss Luciano Leggio had the disease and wore a brace. Italian writer, poet, and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi had the disease. It features prominently in the book This Is a Soul, which chronicles the work of American physician Rick Hodes in Ethiopia. Jane Addams, social activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, had Pott disease. Willem Ten Boom, brother of Corrie Ten Boom, died of tuberculosis of the spine in December 1946
Writer Max Blecher had Pott disease. His story is portrayed in the 2016 film Scarred Hearts. Marxist thinker and Communist leader Antonio Gramsci had Pott disease, probably due to the bad conditions of his incarceration in fascist Italy during the 1930s. Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, leading to World War I, died in prison of bone tuberculosis. English writer Denton Welch (1915–1948) died of spinal tuberculosis after being involved in a motor accident (1935) that irreparably damaged his spine. Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

In works of fiction
In Ernest Pooles Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, His Family, young Johnny Geer has a terminal case of Pott disease. The fictional Hunchback of Notre Dame has a gibbus deformity similar to the type caused by tuberculosis.
Hutchinsons sign is a clinical sign which may refer to:

Hutchinsons pupil, an unresponsive and enlarged pupil on the side of an intracranial mass
Vesicles on the tip of the nose, or vesicles on the side of the nose, precedes the development of ophthalmic herpes zoster. This occurs because the nasociliary branch of the trigeminal nerve innervates both the cornea and the lateral dorsum of the nose as well as the tip of the nose. This sign is named after Sir Jonathan Hutchinson. Melanonychia with pigmentation of the proximal nail fold. : 671  This is an important sign of subungual melanoma although is not an infallible predictor. Periungual hyperpigmentation occurs in at least one nonmelanoma skin cancer, Bowens disease of the nail unit. This is a nail fold pigmentation which then widens progressively to produce a triangular pigmented macule with associated nail dystrophy. Hyperpigmentation of the nail bed and matrix may reflect through the "transparent" nailfolds simulating Hutchinsons sign. Hutchinsons triad - pattern of presentation of congenital syphilis. See also
Green nail sign
List of cutaneous conditions


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