Proposed causes of Darwin’s disease
Causal type | Specific cause | Reference |
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Organic | Heart disease | Darwin himself (1831–1882)1,2 and Diary of Health |
Nervous indigestion | Obituary (1882)2 | |
Chronic from sea sickness | Obituary (1882)4 | |
Chronic neurasthenia | Johnston, 19015 | |
Chronic eye strain | Gould, 19036 | |
Aftermath of Chilean fever | Leonard Huxley, 1927, see Colp7 | |
Pyorrhoea | Leonard Darwin, 1927, see Colp7 | |
Brucellosis | Simpson, 19588 | |
Chagas’ disease | Adler, 19599 | |
Metabolic disease | Stetten, 195910 | |
Acute intermittent porphyria | With, 1960, see King-Hele11 | |
Diaphragmatic hernia | Kohn, 196312 | |
Narcolepsy (diabetes) | Roberts, 196613 | |
Arsenic poisoning | Winslow, 197114 | |
Pigeon allergy | Gruber and Barrett, 1974, see Colp7 | |
Peptic ulcer | See Colp p1307 | |
Duodenal ulcer | See Colp p1307 | |
Appendicitis | see Colp p1307 | |
Smouldering hepatitis | See Colp p1307 | |
Cholecystitis | See Colp p1307 | |
Amoeba infection | See Colp7 | |
Allergy | Smith, 1990, 199215,16 | |
Systemic lactose intolerance | Campbell and Matthews,17,18 | |
Psycosomatic | ||
1st pscychoanalytical theory | Kemf, 191819 | |
Hypochondria | Hubble, 194320 | |
Psychoneurosis | Hubble, 194320 | |
Chronic depression | Alvarez, 195921 | |
Psychosomatic | Woodruff 196522 | |
Bereavement syndrome | Bolby, 1965, 199023,24 | |
Neurosis | Colp, 19777 | |
Mixed psychosomatic | Colp, 19777 | |
Anxiety state | Bernstein, 198225 | |
Panic syndrome | Barloon and Noyes, 199726 |