NAPOLEON C 3
INELIGIBLE FOR GREAT WAR. BELOW PHYSICAL STANDARD. (Received 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, December 23. "Napoleon would have been classed as C 3 physically, and would have been rejected if he had attempted to enlist in' the Great War," says Dr. Thoris, of the French Morphological Society. The doctor said: "At the age of 17 when Napoleon became an officer, I would have been, compelled to reject him because he was too thin, and at 30 because he was too fat. At any other age he wduld have been rejected on the ground of low chest measurement. "He had a body without adequate lungs and with deficient stomach muscle." Napoleon 1., the greatest general in history, has been described "as sheer intellect stalking through the world, bringing all problems straight to the touchstone of an ardent bfam." His marvellous activity, bodily and mental, wore out premajturely the inadequate body in which the brain was housed, and his powers had begun to wane before Waterloo. At 46 years of age he died.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 December 1926, Page 7
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