An account of the last illness, decease, and post mortem appearances, of Napoleon Bonaparte / By Archibald Arnott ... 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.

  • Arnott, Archibald, 1771-1855.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An account of the last illness, decease, and post mortem appearances, of Napoleon Bonaparte / By Archibald Arnott ... 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.

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    86; heat lower than natural, with a cold, damp, clammy perspiration all over him. He com¬ plained much of pain in the hypochondriac and epigastric regions, which he referred to his stomach and liver. He on that day asked me what was to be done for him, and what I con¬ sidered his disease to be ? The symptoms, I toid him, I thought indicated some great derange¬ ment in the digestive organs. He put the question to me again that day, if I supposed his liver affected? My reply was, that I did not think there was any diseased structure of that •viscus,—perhaps there might be a want of due action in it. Professor Antomarchi and myself both agreed that the same mode of treatment should be pursued. On the morning of the £7th of April our patient was low and comatose, had passed a restless night, and had had frequent fits of vomiting. I had not been long at his bed-side before he was again seized with violent retch¬ ing and vomiting, and on examining the basin, I observed that what had come off the stomach was a dark-coloured fluid resembling coffee- grounds, and very offensive. That vomiting continued until half after three o’clock P.M.; it then ceased, and he went to sleep. Pulse