Just thought some of you might be interested in this multimedia website on the history of MS:
http://www.geschichte-der-ms.de
Click on the Union Jack to get the English version and then click on "start time travel."
It gives a nice overview of some of the highlights in understanding MS from a woman in the 14th century who probably had MS through current developments and some speculation on future advances. It really made me think, despite all the h*** that people go through now, how much worse it must have been when there was no hope of figuring out what was going on and people just had to suffer the weird, scary, and unpredictable ravages of MS in a perpetual limboland.
sho