Re: Woefully Inadequate Wikipedia Article >> What are you doing to expand that article?
Author: Pdxrailtransit
Date: 11-10-2017 - 20:31
J Mann Wrote:
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> I wonder if it really was anorexia as we know it
> today. There wasn't a very good understanding
> about cancer back in those days. He could have
> had a form of cancer that made him not want to
> eat. Results are the same. It's just like how it
> used to be common for pneumonia to be listed as
> the cause of death of people. Now it's known that
> other medical conditions are present that cause
> pneumonia. The result is the same - pneumonia
> kills the person. But now doctors know that the
> actual cause of death from the other medical
> condition.
>
> It's kind of funny that 100 years after the
> Northern Securities case the railroads in question
> have all merged as was planned 100 years ago.
> Where's Teddy Roosevelt when you need him.
From what I understand, E.H. was such a workaholic, he wouldn't eat. In the two volume Kennan bio, his cause of death is glossed over.