Alpine Iceman Was a Martyr to Arthritis

摘要

Otzi,the 5000-year old mummy pulled from a glacier in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991,was apparently not in the best of health before he succumbed to the cold of the mountainside.The first X-rays of the mummified body show that he suffered from painful arthritis,multiple rib fractures and hardening of the arteries.