The illness and death of Napoleon Bonaparte / by Arnold Chaplin.

  • Arnold Chaplin
Date:
1913
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    or two in the chain of symptoms had been strengthened. In any case it is evident that any other diagnosis than that of chronic hepatitis had never crossed his mind. The tumefaction over the Hver, which he claimed to have noticed, was never mentioned by any other observer, and it seems probable that stress was laid on that sign to support the theory of enlarged liver as the result of chronic hepatitis. Baxter's reports to Lowe,^ founded on the verbal communications of O'Meara, certainly give the impression of an attempt to discredit the belief that Napoleon was suffering from pronounced ill-health. This was the policy of the British authorities, and Baxter was, before all, Lowe's man. He was on terms of intimacy with him, and singular in addressing him sometimes as Dear General instead of the official Sir adopted by all others. After the departure of O'Meara, the 1 Lowe Papers. Baxter's Reports, vol. 20,156. 2
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