Herod’s Symptoms and Diagnoses

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Symptoms

• Muscular weakness

• Mild fever

• Intolerable itch over the whole skin

• Strong pains in the colon from ulceration of the entrails

• Transparent swellings around the feet as in dropsy

• Malignancy in the abdominal area

• Putrefaction of the private member, creating worms

• Orthopnea or high-pitched breathing

• Disagreeable breath

• Dyspnea or frequent gasping

• Spasms in all limbs of unendurable force

• Fainting and turning eyes up as though dead, when immersed in warm oil

• Melancholy and enragement

• Inability to take food due to overpowering pains

• Sustained convulsive cough

• Attempted suicide

• Poisoning^a

• Cardio-renal failure^b

• Liver cirrhosis^c

• Sexually transmitted disease^d

• Cancer of the bowels^e

• Diabetes mellitus^f

• Cancer of the pancreas^g

• Amoebic dysentery^h