Re: tips digest: May 15, 2005

[Esther Yoder Strahan]

I've been too busy to read TIPS postings for some time, so forgive me if this has already been discussed recently. I know there are medical historians who contend that Darwin was a victim of Chagas' disease, contracted from the "assassin bug" which Darwin wrote about having seen in S. America... In fact, as I recall, there are even some who are hoping to exhume his body in order to test this hypothesis, but last I heard they weren't having any success obtaining permission.
 
See sites such as http://salwen.com/darwin.html

or Goldstein, J. H. (1989). Darwin, Chagas', mind, and body. Perspectives on Biol Med, 32, 586-601.

Esther

Subject: Darwin's illness
From: "Allen Esterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:48:45 -0400
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Darwin's famous illness is frequently retrospectively diagnosed as
psychosomatic (a lovely catch-all term for an illness that eludes obvious
explanation), and/or he has been labelled a hypochondriac. But some
Cardiff University researchers contend that his symptoms are closely
consistent with lactose intolerance:

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