'He had pain urinating for a long time, to the point that one day he said: 'it will kill me,'' Soerensen told AFP, adding that Napoleon suffered these symptons from the 1790s until his death in 1821 at the age of 51. 'From a young age, Napoleon suffered chronic shrinking around his urinary canal, chronic infections in his withered bladder, a kidney illness and obstructive nephropathy that led to deadly complications,' he said.
The retired physician from Aalborg told AFP he studied and analysed Napoleon's life and health for 50 years 'from his childhood until his death'. In the latest twist in a long-running medical saga, Arne Soerensen wrote in a new book 'Napoleon's nyrer' (Napoleon's kidneys) published this week that Napoleon died of kidney and urinary problems, which inflicted him for many years.
