This Is What Killed Medieval Sultan Who Conquered Jerusalem During the Crusades.

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A portrait of Saladin, Salah al-Din Yusuf, the sultan of Egypt and Syria and the Hijaz (part of modern-day Saudi Arabia).
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▼ What killed the sultan Saladin, who famously unified the Muslim world during the 12th century, recaptured Jerusalem from the Christians and helped spark the Third Crusade? Until now, it was a mystery. But by sifting through clues on Saladin's medical symptoms written more than 800 years ago, a doctor may have finally determined what illness felled the mighty sultan.
It was typhoid, said Dr. Stephen Gluckman, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, announced today (May 4) at the 25th annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Experts at the conference diagnose a historical figure every year, and past diagnoses have featured Lenin, Darwin, Eleanor Roosevelt and Lincoln.
Gluckman cautioned that a definitive diagnosis will probably never be known, given that Saladin lived before the age of modern diagnostic tools. But typhoid — an illness that people contract when they ingest food or water that's contaminated with the bacteriumSalmonella typhi— seems to fit the bill, he said.
Saladin is an iconic figure who played a pivotal role in the history of Europe and the Middle East. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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CaptSandy

That's a good info.

Theskpd

Very good information and conclusive one.he might of died of typhoid.