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R D Laurenson

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PubMed1995

The Emperor who smoked a pipe.

Since 1946 authoritative reports have identified smoking as a cause of cancer of the lung and a probable cause of cancer of the larynx. Crown Prince Frederick (later Emperor Frederick III of Prussia and the German Kaiser) was a pipe smoker for at least 30 years before he died of cancer of the larynx in 1888 at the age of 57 years. The evidence is so overwhelming that this author proposes that the Emperor's laryngeal cancer was induced by tobacco.

Famous Persons↗
PubMed1995

Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia: Suez and syphilis. Un canard dévoilé.

Frederick III (Crown Prince of Prussia, and Emperor of Germany) died of cancer of the larynx in 1888. In Drame Imperial (1888) journalist Jean de Bonnefon asserted that the disease was not cancer but syphilis which the Crown Prince acquired in 1869 in Suez. What de Bonnefon wrote about the prince does not coincide with the prince's itinerary published in the London Times. This discrepancy is examined and the reason for de Bonefon's claim is considered. The report that Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia caught syphilis in Suez is a canard.

Egypt↗
PubMed1978

Introducing first-year medical students to early diagnostic hypotheses.

The early formation of hypotheses is recognized as an important part of a clinical diagnosis (clinical problem-solving). This paper describes a method of instruction in gynecology for first-year medical students which encouraged the formulation of early diagnostic hypotheses. In paper and pencil case simulations designed for independent learning, students were provided with a set of clinical clues that helped them make broad general diagnostic hypotheses rather than the narrow hypotheses typical of beginning students. A description of the method of evaluating the student's ability to form diagnostic hypotheses, the results of evaluations, and the students' perceptions of the course are included in this report.

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