about his illness:"Age 56-57. - For twenty-five years extreme spasmodic daily & nightly flatulence: occasional vomiting, on two occasions prolonged during months. Vomiting preceded by shivering, hysterical crying, dying sensations or half-faint. & copious and very palid urine. Now vomiting & every passage of flatulence preceded by ringing of ears, treading on air & vision. focus & black dots, air fatigues, specially risky, brings on the Head symptoms[,] nervousness when E[mma]. leaves me..."This was the man that evolutionists are listening to. I am not here to make jokes. I can't imagine for twenty five years going through this . . . .what a horrible life. Darwins illness had never been diagnosed.Heres what he did to try to cure it:Darwin tried desperately many different therapies within the limited armamentarium of medical science of his time. He took all kinds of medicines, including bismuth compounds and laudanum and even tried quack therapies, such as electrical stimulation
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