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CARLISLE, England, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A document apparently written by a British Army doctor who attended Napoleon Bonaparte in his last days has been sold at auction.
A telephone bidder placed the winning bid of 550 pounds ($964) in an auction at the Thomson, Roddick and Medcalf in Carlisle, the News & Star reported.
The handwritten manuscript was discovered when the owner of a house in Scotland turned over a miscellaneous lot of belongings to the auction house.
Steve Lees, the auction house's military specialist, said that the document should put an end to the theory that Napoleon died of arsenic poisoning during his exile on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena. The paper is unsigned but appears to be an eyewitness account by one of six military doctors who attended the former emperor in his last days.
"He is extremely explicit in his report that there was a large growth in Napoleon's stomach which must have caused him considerable pain," Lees told The Scotsman.
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