If you follow the link, that's not quite where the error lies.
The article was actually published in "The Lancet Infectious Diseases", which is a sub-specialty journal affiliated w/ The Lancet.
Just in case that's not clear...
* The blog-post/article suggests that the research article was published in "The Lancet."
* The Lancet is a prestigious British medical journal that publishes research on a broad range of medical topics.
* The research article was actually published in "The Lancet Infectious Diseases" which is a specialty journal affiliated with its more prestigious "mother journal" called The Lancet.
* The author of the blog-post seems to have not realized what The Lancet is, and incorrectly used its name.
It’s conceivable he got sepsis through a syphilitic ulcer of course ;)
More realistically if it was sepsis you can get that from any infection the reaches the blood stream - an infected cut, and animal bite, etc.
I’m also curious if they did test for lead content - I vaguely recall it accumulating in bones, but that knowledge comes from an episode of macguyver :)
I realize not everybody knows the Lancet but as medical professional I chuckled at this...
The article was actually published in "The Lancet Infectious Diseases", which is a sub-specialty journal affiliated w/ The Lancet.
Just in case that's not clear...
* The blog-post/article suggests that the research article was published in "The Lancet."
* The Lancet is a prestigious British medical journal that publishes research on a broad range of medical topics.
* The research article was actually published in "The Lancet Infectious Diseases" which is a specialty journal affiliated with its more prestigious "mother journal" called The Lancet.
* The author of the blog-post seems to have not realized what The Lancet is, and incorrectly used its name.
More realistically if it was sepsis you can get that from any infection the reaches the blood stream - an infected cut, and animal bite, etc.
I’m also curious if they did test for lead content - I vaguely recall it accumulating in bones, but that knowledge comes from an episode of macguyver :)
Of note they did measure lead levels and they were very high, but they have good evidence for staph.
Thanks for the actual article link.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama%27s_Power_of_Ar...