On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Daniel Davies wrote:
> My knowledge of the subject comes only from the "Daily Mirror Book of
> Fascinating Facts", which I used to read avidly as a twelve-year-old,
> but I thought it was the orthodox theory on Napoleon that he died from
> arsenic poisoning from the wallpaper in his room.
I thought an autopsy revealed that he had gastric cancer, the same kind his father Carlo had.
Michael
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