"Rare Doctor’s Note Offers Glimpse Into Napoleon’s Agonized" Topic
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Tango01 | 11 Jan 2021 10:00 p.m. PST |
… Final Years "…A rare doctor's note recently sold at auction offers a new glimpse into Napoleon's fragile health during his final years. As Sara Spary reports for CNN, Irish surgeon Barry Edward O'Meara handwrote the letter, which Heritage Auctions sold to an unnamed British citizen for $2,000. USD Dated to June 4, 1818, the letter outlines its subject's "ill health" in detail. "I found [Napoleon] laboring under a considerable degree of fever, his countenance displaying anxiety and being evidently that of a man who was experiencing severe corporeal sufferings," O'Meara observed…" More here link Amicalement Armand
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Oddball | 12 Jan 2021 6:28 a.m. PST |
Arsenic poisoning will have a negative effect upon your health. |
42flanker | 12 Jan 2021 10:08 a.m. PST |
'Handwritten' letter. There's a thing. |
4th Cuirassier | 12 Jan 2021 10:30 a.m. PST |
"severe corporeal sufferings" is a reference to the Imperial farmers, I presume? |
IronDuke596 | 12 Jan 2021 11:22 a.m. PST |
A balanced article that confirms that Napoleon died of stomach cancer after suffering for several years. Good find T and thanks. |
Nine pound round | 12 Jan 2021 11:52 a.m. PST |
A painful way to go now; how terrible it must have been in that era, when medicine was so primitive. |
Tango01 | 12 Jan 2021 11:56 a.m. PST |
No mention my friend! (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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