The study of MS has been going on for decades. This autoimmune disease is also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata. Jean-Martin Charcot was the first to describe Multiple Sclerosis in the year of 1868. The definition of this disease refers to it as an autoimmune disease. Inflammation of the nerve cells is caused when the immune system attacks perfectly healthy nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. As cells are damaged, the myelin sheath surrounding each nerve can no longer send the appropriate signals needed. Nerve cells are supposed to keep the brain and body in contact with one another. A reduction in the ability to transmit electrical impulses effectively causes an abundance of symptoms and signs.

People react differently to the way the lesions form on the brain and spinal cord. Some experience mild symptoms and others can have symptoms which are so severe that they lose most …