Did Saladin die of typhus?

[Duncan Head]

The annual meeting of the Historical Clinicopathological Conference:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/05/what-killed-historys-most-famous-people-medical-sleuths-gather-to-investigate

[Imperial Dave]

interesting line of investigation but I guess for most of our time period, iron poisoning was probably the majority cause of demise!

[Duncan Head]

I suspect not:

It is now a truism among historians that before the 20th Century far more people died in wartime from disease than from combat.

from https://search.proquest.com/openview/edb747f0aa944eb3a6be7f274842cd20/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1056335

Of course we rarely have reliable figures before the Early Modern period.

And in any case, for the first half of our period it would be bronze poisoning 

[Imperial Dave]

fair point