The cause of Napoleon's death.
Napoleon experienced two exiles, the first to Elba and the second to the more distant island of St. Helena, where he also died. The cause of his death is widely debated.
One theory is that one of Napoleon's close attendants, because Napoleon had taken over his lover, quietly put a small amount of arsenic cream into Napoleon's daily diet, causing the invincible monarch to be chronically poisoned to death. However, in recent years, some people have examined that Napoleon was exhausted, perennial conquest, excessive fatigue, and was physiologically feminine in his prime, he did not interact with women at all, even if he and the empress were only nominal husband and wife, how could he go to dominate other people's mistresses? I am afraid that the theory of love killing cannot be established.
Another theory is that a new idea is based on an article published by British chemists in the October 1982 issue of the journal New Scientist. The article says that in the nineteenth century, copper arsenide was widely used as a pigment for wallpaper dyeing, painting and textile. When Napoleon went into exile on the island of St. Helena, he lived in a house with green wallpaper dyed with arsenic copper. The pigment is stable and harmless when dried, but in the humid environment of the South Atlantic, arsenic can be free from the wallpaper and invade the human body, and ten people are slowly poisoned and killed. Not only Napoleon, but also his retinue and the hundreds of people who lived in the house had symptoms of arsenic poisoning, and many people died as a result.
Another theory is that a new study that combines current medical techniques, autopsy reports, memoirs of Dr. Napoleon, eyewitness transcripts, and family medical histories has found that gastrointestinal bleeding was the direct cause of Napoleon's death. The researchers said Napoleon's cancer was advanced, and the cancer cells had spread to other organs throughout the body. Robert Gernta, a professor at Southwestern University in Texas who led the study, said: "Even at today's level of medicine, he will not live for a year." ”
According to historical records, Napoleon's father also died of stomach cancer, but his own cancer was most likely caused by a bacterial infection caused by ulcers. Gernta said that long-term marching operations generally eat pickled foods and have little contact with fruits and vegetables, and this eating habit increases the possibility of Napoleon's stomach cancer.
Taken together, Napoleon was likely poisoned to death, whether it was because of wallpaper or because of poisoning, Napoleon died by accident.
