The Mystery surrounding Napoleon’s death

Is Napoleon’s death a mystery? Everyone knows he died of stomach cancer .Wait a minute. Go through
these points and you will know how it’s a mystery.

1. Napoleon died in 1821.
2. Francesco Antommarchi, the physician chosen by Napoleon's family and the leader of the post mortem examination, gave stomach cancer as a reason for Napoleon's death on his death certificate.
3. In May 2005, a team of Swiss physicians claimed that the reason for Napoleon's death was stomach cancer, which was also the cause of his father's death.(genetic basis)
4. Napoleon at his death weighed approx. 76 kg (168 lb) while a year earlier he weighed approx. 91 kg (200 lb).(significant weight loss indicating cancer)
5. The medical regimen imposed on Napoleon by his doctors included treatment with antimony potassium tartrate, regular enemas and a 600 milligram dose of mercuric chloride to purge his intestines in the days immediately prior to his death. A group of researchers from the San Francisco Medical Examiner's Department speculate that this treatment may have led to Napoleon's death by causing a serious potassium deficiency.

ARSENIC POISONING



1. Napoleon's body was found to be remarkably well preserved when it was moved in 1840, it gives support to the arsenic theory, as arsenic is a strong preservative.
2. In 2001, Pascal Kintz, of the Strasbourg Forensic Institute in France, added value to this claim with a study of arsenic levels found in a lock of Napoleon's hair preserved after his death.
3. Recent analysis on behalf of the magazine Science et Vie showed that similar concentrations of arsenic can be found in Napoleon's hair in samples taken from 1805, 1814 and 1821.Some say if arsenic was the case he would have died much earlier.
4. Arsenic was also a widely used treatment for syphilis during those days.Some say he might have suffered from the disease .
5. An extensive 2007 study found no evidence of arsenic poisoning in the organs, such as hemorrhaging in the lining inside the heart, and concluded that stomach cancer was the cause of death.

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