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To: Vermont Lt

Could have been appendicitis.


8 posted on 04/23/2016 1:40:35 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: Tax-chick

I always heard he went on an all day drinking spree with some friends.

from Wikipedia:

“No extant contemporary source explains how or why he died. Half a century later, John Ward, the vicar of Stratford, wrote in his notebook: “Shakespeare, Drayton and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and, it seems, drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted”,[66][67] not an impossible scenario, since Shakespeare knew Jonson and Drayton.”


20 posted on 04/23/2016 3:03:40 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Tax-chick

Do you have reason for postulating that? I think it unlikely. Setting aside that is more rare among fully-grown adults, that condition as a common “disease” is a modern happenstance:
Appendicitis was largely unknown until the Western toilet was mass produced. The human body is designed for squatting during elimination; continual failure to fully eliminate may produce any of several chronic conditions, including appendicitis.
(No, I am not joking. This is a matter of physiology and physics.)

http://www.naturesplatform.com/health_benefits.html#appendicitis


22 posted on 04/23/2016 3:20:01 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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