French Food Killed Napoleon
Napoleon was not assassinated by the British; a new report suggests he was felled by poor quality French Food.
American researchers have concluded that stomach cancer exasperated by French military food was the possible cause of death, so says Cosmos.
In the latest twist in a long-running medical saga, the research team reassessed Napoleon’s clinical history, the original autopsy and other documents, and compared this evidence with data from 135 gastric cancer patients.
Napoleon died aged 51, in 1821, while exiled on St. Helena. It has long been held that he was poisoned with arsenic from his British captors. The report suggests though that standard military fare - a diet lacking in fresh fruit but full of salted meat - was the cause.
The autopsy found a huge tumour that ran at least 10 centimetres down the side of Napoleon’s stomach. It also came across ‘enlarged and hardened’ gastric lymph nodes - indicators, according to the study, that this cancer was in an advanced, tertiary stage.
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