« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 06 May 25 19:39 BST (UK) »
Medicine has since moved on and these days he might have survived:-
If he was constantly under stress:- ""Apoplexy" refers to both a medical condition, historically a stroke, and a metaphorical state of intense anger or fury. In its medical sense, it describes a sudden loss of consciousness or paralysis due to a brain hemorrhage or blood vessel blockage. Figuratively, it's used to describe someone in a state of extreme rage.
"STROKE"- In medical records, "apoplexy" historically referred to a sudden, often fatal event characterized by loss of consciousness, movement, and sensation. It encompassed various conditions now understood as strokes, but also other events causing similar sudden presentations, such as ruptured aortic aneurysms or heart attacks. The term was gradually replaced by "stroke" in the 19th and 20th centuries as medical understandin"
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