Scientist Probe Famous Deaths for New Insights
Revisiting history yields haunting insights about what might have been.
For the past 25 years, Philip Mackowiak, a professor (now emeritus) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in Baltimore, has hosted a conference about solving the mysterious deaths of historical figures. The gatherings have generated some very intriguing diagnoses for people like Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln and this year’s selection, Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt. spoke to Mackowiak about his obsession with cold
