2009
A Most Agreeable Seawolf
This patient is credited with having given the U.S. Navy "its earliest traditions of heroism and victory." He was born in Kirkbean, Scotland, in July 1747, went to sea as an apprentice at the age of 13, and spent the next three decades "riding the whirlwind and directing the storm" of a life aboard sailing ships. (read more)
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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) |
