Caesars Strokes and the Fate of an Empire... with Francesco Maria Galassi and Hutan Ashrafian @ClassicsConfidentia1
Caesars Strokes and the Fate of an Empire... with Francesco Maria Galassi and Hutan Ashrafian  @ClassicsConfidentia1
Uploaded May 2015 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
This week CC went to London's Hammersmith Hospital to talk to the authors of a new study published in the journal Neurological Sciences. Medical doctors Francesco Maria Galassi and Hutan Ashrafian tell us why they think that Julius Caesar suffered from a series of mini-strokes in his later life - and why we should discount the conventional retrospective diagnosis of his illness as epilepsy.
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