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Modern doctors speculate Louisa May Alcott had lupus

gee-thanks for discovering what disease someone had who is now DEAD! How about we focus on keeping the living healthy.

This is an interesting article. I've wondered about her portrait as well. Alcott certainly did some interesting things in her life. I didn't know she was a nurse. I guess I just assumed that her life paralled "Jo's."

For those of us living with Lupus in the modern world, I think it's easy to see the 'Lupus connection'. It is interesting to read of ideas of medical causes of death of those long gone as it links to some of the same things we experience today. Good article and very interesting. No doubt the work of knowing health problems of someone that died 119 years ago is very speculative at this point in time, but I enjoy reading the ideas.

Can you imagine being sick every day? Back then I suppose that there was no steroids...

Complaining about being in pain probably was harder to deal with back then. No meds or diagnosis. Imagine that.