Re: Why did Doyle die so young? (Sir A.Conan Doyle died at the age of 71)

HenHanna wrote:
> On 7/9/2024 4:23 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>>   Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh HenHanna:
>>
>>   > [...]      Why did Doyle   die   so young?
>>   >            He was so rich, and was a Medical Man.
>>   >
>>   > >>> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930 at the age of 71.
>>
>> Doyle was a smoker who died of a heart attack at 71. This is completely
>> unremarkable, and still happens today even if patients get on
>> cholesterol-lowering medication early and have everything managed 
>> according to
>> best medical practice.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>      i wonder if he noticed any early signs.

In those days the connections/correlations of smoking
with disease weren't really known. For example

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22345227/
2013 Jan:22

The history of the discovery of the cigarette-lung
cancer link: evidentiary traditions, corporate
denial, global toll

"Lung cancer was once a very rare disease, so
rare that doctors took special notice when
confronted with a case, thinking it a
once-in-a-lifetime oddity. Mechanisation and
mass marketing towards the end of the 19th
century popularised the cigarette habit,
however, causing a global lung cancer epidemic.
Cigarettes were recognised as the cause of the
epidemic in the 1940s and 1950s..."


In a google image search with the terms:
poster doctors recommend smoking

You can find all kinds of early advertisements
for smoking featuring doctors. Several here

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/outrageous-vintage-cigarette-ads/3/

has a 1931 Camels cigarette ad with a doctor and
the caption says "Smoke a FRESH cigarette". There's
a couple from the 1890s billed as good for treating
asthma.

So as far as Doyle recognizing symptoms, well, in
those days smoking was not likely to have been
seen as the cause.