I don’t know too much about the history of Napoleon, but I figured this would be of interest to someone out there.

Every day the doctors gave Napoleon an enema to relieve his symptoms. “They used really big, nasty syringe-shaped things,” Karch says. This, combined with regular doses of antimony potassium tartrate to make him vomit, would have left his body seriously short of potassium, which can lead to a lethal heart condition called “torsades de pointes” in which bouts of rapid heartbeats disrupt blood flow to the brain.

Yeah I would probably die from all of that as well.

via Broz News