Napoleon's pants say stomach cancer.

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Napoleon Bonaparte probably died of stomach cancer, not arsenic poisoning, according to, ... er ... the pants he wore in his last six years.

A study out of University Hospital in Basel and the Institute of Medical History at the University of Zurich finds that 12 pairs of the French emperor's pants, worn while in exile after Waterloo, demonstrate a wasting of body weight that is fully consistent with stomach cancer. The emperor's waist measurement fell to 97 cms, from 110 cms, during his final years on the...

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