Hey there hoofbeats listeners, John Wong here with Cindy Fang. Hope that if you're listening to this in the midst of everything that's been happening, it's a good sign.

Certainly feels good to be working on hoofbeats again, though we are impossibly behind on episodes, but Cindy and I will keep trying to work on it.

In the meantime, we have something a bit different for you today.

One of our colleagues, Dr David Cudd Kudowitz puts together historical

C. C. C. discussions about famous people who had mysterious illnesses or deaths.

If you've been listening you may recall David as our discuss in from a past episode, the PEs 3 as it were.

So it only seemed fair when David offered to flip the tables and pitch a case challenge of his own,

that we take him up on the offer.

So just to be clear, we are not the discussants.

No, of course not.

We commentate other people perform.

That's how it works on hoof-feds.

What happened is,

John and I watched David challenge two senior faculties here

with a historical mystery case presented

in five eloquence of information. And we're happy to bring this challenge to you today.

See if you can replicate the historical consensus on this case,

and hope you enjoy listening in as much as we did.

Just a little warning.

We recorded this as a real-time interview and as our discussions got excited talking about

the case, they started bumping into the microphones and thawking fists on the tables, so apologies

in advance for the sound quality.

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