Tag: dysentery
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Death by dysentery? Artist Frank Russell Wadsworth in Madrid
Sally MetzlerChicago, Illinois, United States Though he basked in the Spanish sun, the summer warmth would be his downfall, indeed his early death. Artist Frank Russell Wadsworth of Chicago gravitated towards the vivid colors and picturesque river banks of Spain. He was but a mere thirty-one years of age when he died in 1905 in…
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Historical reflections on cause, responsibility and blame in medicine
William AlburyNew England, Armidale, Australia Debauchery and disease In the early years of British settlement in Australia the colonial authorities regarded drunkenness as one of the major evils of the day. Their preoccupation with this social problem was mirrored by the concern of the colony’s medical men with drunkenness as a cause of illness. In…
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The death of Alexander the Great
George DuneaChicago, IL Possibly the greatest warrior of all times, Alexander of Macedon died aged 32 at Babylon. Within 12 years he had overthrown an empire that had lasted two centuries, conquered the greater part of the Eastern world, became worshiped as a god, and forever changed the course of history.1 Fair and light skinned,…