Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828. Excerpt: ... the llth of April was a black, mucous matter. After this he became quite exhausted, and signified to Dr. Arnott that medical aid could be of no avail to him, and that he was labouring under a fatal disease. At the doctor's request, he took a little jelly and warm wine, which rested on his stomach. Napoleon asked the doctor, on the same day, how a person died of debility, and how long one could live, eating as little as he did. In fact, he continued alternately better and worse till the hickuping attacked him at the latter end of April; after this there was an aggravation of all the symptoms. At length, on the 3th of May, there was a total loss of muscular motion; the under jaw had dropped, the eyes were fixed, and the pulse yaried from 102 to 110 in the minute, was email and weak, and was easily compressed. That nothing should be left undone, although the patient was moribundui, (dying, ) sinapisms were applied to the feet, blisters to the legs, and one to the sfermtm, but none of them took..effect; and all the symptoms increased till eleven minutes before six o'clock, in the evening of the 21st of May, 1821, when he expired, in the fifty-second year of his age. His dissolution was so calm and serene, that not a sigh escaped him, nor any intimation to his attendants that it was so near. The last words he is known to have uttered were "tete armte." What their connexion in his mind was, could not be ascertained; but they were distinctly heard about five o'clock in the morning of the day he died. His countenance after death was described as placid and serene, and as having in it something very commanding and noble. On opening the body, and exposing the stomach, that organ was found the seat of extensive disease. Nearly the whole of its internal surface was a ...