[Henrik Wergeland's disease and death. 150th anniversary].
It is 150 years since the Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland (1808-45) died. It is commonly assumed that the suffered from "phthisis" or--as we now call it--tuberculosis. This paper discusses the symptoms mentioned in Wergeland's own letters, which seem to indicate that the diagnosis was instead pulmonary cancer.
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Anatomisk institutt Universitetet i Oslo.
D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005197:Famous Persons; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D009664:Norway; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*
Henrik Wergelands sykdom og død. Et 150-årsminne.