There is an area of medical history that seeks to diagnose historical figures, is this valuable? Could it damage the study of history?
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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyrig...  ]


Images:

Portrait of King Henry VI of England by an unknown artist (c.1540). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. From Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of King Richard III of England by an unknown artist (late 16th century). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. From Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of King George III in coronation robes by Allan Ramsay (c.1765). Held by the Art Gallery of South Australia. From Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1859). Held by the Royal Collection. From Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England in her coronation robes by an unknown artist (between 1600 and 1610 copy of a lost original of c. 1559). Held by the National Portrait Gallery. From Wikimedia Commons.

Portrait of King Henry VIII by an unknown artist, after Hans Holbein (after 1537). Held by the Walker Art Gallery. From Wikimedia Commons.

Model of an arm showing smallpox infection, from the Mütter Museum
Twitter: @MutterMuseum

London Board of Health searching the city for cholera during the 1832 epidemic. Lithograph, 1832. Held by the Wellcome Collection. Creative Commons.

Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons by Hans Holbein with additions and rewordings by other hands (begun c.1543; additions and rewordings mid16th century and 17th century) Held by The Worshipful Company of Barbers. From Wikimedia Commons.

The Martyrdom of Mercury. The scourge of Venus and Mercury, represented in a treatise of the venereal disease. John Sintelaer. 1709. London: G. Harris. From: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/T...

Websites used for reference:
https://www.nhs.uk

https://www.who.int/csr/disease/small...

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/mcl...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/l...