Saladin , the 12th - one C sultan of Egypt and Syria , was one brave swayer . After unify much of the Muslim world , he took on the Christian Franks at the Battle of Hattin and win , bringing Jerusalem back under Muslim rule and setting off the Third Crusade .
It was n’t battle that did him in , though . Dr. Stephen Gluckman , a professor of medical specialty at the University of Pennsylvania , believes the cause of Saladin ’s death in 1193 was most likely typhoid , LiveSciencereports .
Up until now , the circumstances of Saladin ’s loss have largely remain a secret , as is often the eccentric with hoi polloi who dwell long before modern diagnostic tools were invented . Gluckman was capable to hit a diagnosis by analyzing Saladin ’s symptom as they were record more than 800 years ago , and shared his medical opinion at this class ’s Historical ClinicopathologicalConferenceat the University of Maryland , which taps experts to diagnose a different deceased historical name each year . Inpast years , some theorized that Charles Darwin ’s effort of death was cyclic vomiting syndrome , and Edgar Allan Poe ’s demise was impute to either rabies ordelirium tremens—“a stark sort of inebriant withdrawal . ”
As for Saladin , he suffered a “ mysterious fever and two - week illness , ” harmonise to LiveScience . He pall at age 55 or 56 , despite efforts to revive him with bloodletting techniques and clyster .
Gluckman was able-bodied to rule out plague and smallpox because they tend to kill quickly , and tuberculosis and malaria did n’t fit the bill , either . Typhoid , however , was coarse at that time , and Saladin ’s symptom seemed reproducible with other cases . get by the bacteriaSalmonella typhi , typhoid is disperse through contaminated water or food . High fever is the main symptom , but helplessness and loss of appetence are also typically observed .
Saladin was buried next to the steel he had carried during the Holy War , but otherwise , his burying rite were “ as simple as a pauper’sfuneral , ” according to source Stanley Lane - Poole inSaladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem . The money for his funeral had to be borrow because he had impart away all his wealth .
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