Multiple sclerosis raises lots of questions due to its nature. First of all, patients are told that this is a neurological condition, then that it’s an autoimmune disease and an demyelinating condition. That is confusing for most of them. When at all of the above the news that there is no permanent cure is added, this makes patients wonder about the history of this condition. Is it that recent, or simply that difficult to diagnose and treat?

Believe it or not, the first records of a disease with MS-like symptoms date from the 1400, when Lydwina of Schieden experienced these  MS like symptoms. However, the disease was described, categorized and documented in 1868, by Dr Jean Martin Charcot, professor of neurology at the University of Paris. It was he who wrote the first complete description of MS and the changes in the brain that accompany this condition.

MS’s history is still being written, and medical advances in the treatment and finding a cure of this condition are made each and every day. Hopefully, it won’t take long until all MS patients will be able to rejoice over the good news that an effective cure has been discovered by the medical community!