Marg-i Mardān-i Nāmī (Az Suqrāt ta Istālīn): Persian 1398

From Socrates to Stalin, history is littered with medical errors. Was Alexander taken away by alcohol, Saint Louis by the plague, Madame by poison? Should we blame a snake for the death of Cleopatra, and England for the end of Napoleon? Did Hitler's decline begin in 1940? But first, how did Jesus end his earthly life? It is up to the doctor to make these diagnoses for history, to specify the circumstances of the illness, to dig into the personal and family history, in short to establish the careful observation of all these illustrious men. To do this, he must return to the sources, and search the memoirs of the chroniclers and the journals of the doctors of the time. At the beginning of the century, Doctor Cabanès had already come to the aid of History. Overwhelmed by fundamental techniques, medicine today understands better the problems of illness and death. She must reach this moment of truth. The author, a specialist in infectious diseases, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Dijon, has tackled this problem since 1970 in medical journals, and each year teaches his students about medicine throughout history.