Retrospective diagnosis
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A retrospective diagnosis (also retrodiagnosis or posthumous diagnosis) is the practice of identifying an illness in a historical figure using modern knowledge, methods and disease classifications.
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Examples
- Was the English sweat caused by hantavirus?
- Was the black death due to bubonic plague?
- Was "the great pox" syphilis or several venereal diseases?
- Could Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness have been Guillain-Barré syndrome rather than poliomyelitis?
- Did botulism cause the religious visions experienced by Julian of Norwich?
- Did King George III of the United Kingdom exhibit the classic symptoms of porphyria?
- Did Abraham Lincoln have Marfan syndrome?
- Could Burke and Wills have died of thiaminase poisoning?
- Did Tutankhamun have Klippel-Feil syndrome?
- Samuel Johnson's health
- Rousseau's mental health
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Literature
- Les Difformes et les malades dans l'art (1889) by Jean-Martin Charcot and Paul Richer
- Les démoniaques dans l'art (1887) by Jean-Martin Charcot and Paul Richer
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See also
- Samuel Johnson's health
- Retrospect
- List of people with epilepsy (includes notes on retrospective diagnosis and misdiagnosis of historical figures)
- Historical figures sometimes considered autistic
- Psychohistory
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