2008
Akhenaten
This patient ruled Egypt during the twilight of
the house of the Thutmosids as a revolutionary and an
iconoclast. (read
more)
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2007
President Lincoln
This year’s program examines the treatment U.S. president Abraham Lincoln received after being hit by an assassin’s bullet in 1865.
(read more)
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2006
Booker T.
Washington
This patient was one of the most admired Americans of his
time. Born a slave, he was the successor of Frederick Douglass
as leader and spokesman for black America in the aftermath
of the Civil War.
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2005
Christopher
Columbus
The
patient’s illness began abruptly at age 41 with an attack
of “the gout” during a violent storm on his return
from the first of four voyages of discovery.
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2004
Heinrich
Schlieman
Except
for intermittent ear aches (apparently bilateral), the patient
had enjoyed excellent health until age 54...
(read more) |
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2003
Florence
Nightingale
The
patient's illness began at age 35 years. She was in Scutari,
Turkey at the time, working twenty or more hours a day as
an army nurse and hospital administrator under extraordinarily
squalid and mentally and physically exhausting conditions.
(read more)
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2002
Herod
A
69 year-old man presented with chronic low-grade fever, edema,
abdominal pain, insatiable hunger pangs, shortness and foulness
of breath... (read more) |
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2002
Joan
of Arc
Joan
of Arc was born at Domremy in what is now Lorraine around
1412. (read more) |
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2001
Claudius
In
the month of October, a 63-year old man developed postprandial
abdominal pain and vomiting.
(read more) |
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2000
Mozart
A
35 year old man presented with fever, rash and anasarca. His
illness began suddenly in late November during the course
of a local epidemic of a similar disease. |
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1999
Pericles
A
65 year old man is seen because of fever, headache, sore throat
and vomiting. The patient is a resident of Athens, Greece.
(read
more) |
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1998
George
A. Custer
General
George A. Custer was a 36-year-old, highly-decorated military
officer. (read more) |
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1997
Ludwig
van Beethoven
Ludwig
van Beethoven was a 56-year-old man who
presented with fever and chills associated with ascites, abdominal
pain and a hacking cough with scant hemoptysis. (read more) |
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1996
Alexander
the Great
Alexander
the Great, a 32-year-old veteran, began to feel poorly following
an evening of heavy alcohol intake.
(read
more) |
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1995
Edgar
Allan Poe
Edgar
Allan Poe was a 40-year-old man who was brought to an emergency
room for evaluation of lethargy and confusion and admitted
to the hospital for observation. (read more) |
