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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
8:29:00 AM EDT
Hearing Brown-Eyed Girl -- Everclear
It's good to be king -- or pharoah, or kaiser, or what have you -- but if you ever needed a reminder that even kings were merely human, here's this tidbit about one of the most famous of rulers, King Tut:
Scientists have finally discovered what caused the death of Egypt's most famous ruler, Tutankhamun: Gangrene due to a broken leg.
The discovery by Egyptian scientists puts to rest the theory that the teenage pharaoh was murdered by a blow to his head.
"After consultations with Italian and Swiss experts, Egyptian scientists ... have found that a fracture in the boy king's left leg a day before his death was infected with gangrene and led to his passing," Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said according to a report on Australian news Web site sbs.com.au.
I'll note just for trivia's sake that when I was ten, I fractured my leg also -- well, not so much fractured as had it turned into gravel because it was struck by the bumper of a car. It was a nasty break, but I don't think that at any point in the whole process was anyone particularly concerned that I was going to die from it: antibiotics and modern medical care took care of that issue.
So: Something that would kill a king in Ancient Egypt wouldn't be considered a mortal danger to an average kid in the 1979. One of the many reasons why it's better to be an average person in American today than a king in times past.
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8:29:00 AM EDT
Hearing Brown-Eyed Girl -- Everclear
Break a Leg, King Tut
It's good to be king -- or pharoah, or kaiser, or what have you -- but if you ever needed a reminder that even kings were merely human, here's this tidbit about one of the most famous of rulers, King Tut:
Scientists have finally discovered what caused the death of Egypt's most famous ruler, Tutankhamun: Gangrene due to a broken leg.
The discovery by Egyptian scientists puts to rest the theory that the teenage pharaoh was murdered by a blow to his head.
"After consultations with Italian and Swiss experts, Egyptian scientists ... have found that a fracture in the boy king's left leg a day before his death was infected with gangrene and led to his passing," Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said according to a report on Australian news Web site sbs.com.au.
I'll note just for trivia's sake that when I was ten, I fractured my leg also -- well, not so much fractured as had it turned into gravel because it was struck by the bumper of a car. It was a nasty break, but I don't think that at any point in the whole process was anyone particularly concerned that I was going to die from it: antibiotics and modern medical care took care of that issue.
So: Something that would kill a king in Ancient Egypt wouldn't be considered a mortal danger to an average kid in the 1979. One of the many reasons why it's better to be an average person in American today than a king in times past.
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Gangrene in one day? Seems odd.
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One question. How did he get gangrene in one day?
5/13/05 12:51 AM
I do admit though, that I'm wondering about now why children and adults all get zithromax.. they used to give kids amoxcillin and they accelerate to penicillin ...
a practicw which seemed more civilized to me and less likely to produce immunity to antibiotics.
However, I drift... your point is well taken John