An account of the last illness, decease, and post mortem appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte : to which is added a letter from Dr. Arnott to Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, giving a succinct statement of Napoleon Bonaparte's disease and demise.

  • Archibald Arnott
Date:
1822
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Credit: An account of the last illness, decease, and post mortem appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte : to which is added a letter from Dr. Arnott to Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, giving a succinct statement of Napoleon Bonaparte's disease and demise. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    REMARKS. It will no doubt appear singular that a person of Napoleon Bonaparte's habits should have been affected with schirrus and cancer of the stomach;—a man who was noted for temperance, and never in his life indulged in any excess which could tend to produce such an affection. I have seen the disease before, but it was in men addicted to ardent spirits,—decided dram drinkers. We are given to understand, from great au- thority*, that this affection of the stomach can- not be produced without a considerable predis- position of the parts to the disease, and that when there is no previous disposition, the stomach does not become affected with that disease. Whether Napoleon Bonaparte had any hereditary disposition towards this disease, I will not venture an opinion ; but it is somewhat remarkable, that he often said that his father died of schirrus of the pylorus ; that the body was examined after death, and the fact ascer- tained. His faithful followers. Count and * See Dr. Baillie's inestimable book on Morbid Anatomy, p. 141, 142.
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