On Aug 4, 1:11*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Lynn from Fargo wrote:
>
> > Actually. Euell ("Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible . . .")
> > Gibbons is said to have died from complications of bleeding stomach
> > ulcers caused by *. . . ready??? * Too many aspirins taken for
> > arthritis *(said arthritis was supposedly caused by too much hiking
> > around in the cold damp outdoors.)
>
> According to Wikipedia, that's not his cause of death.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euell_Gibbons

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I'm familiar with Marfan's Syndrome but other than the Wikipedia
article can find no connection with Gibbons - and their article on
Marfan does not mention Gibbons in their list of Marfan sufferers.
Was Gibbons a tall man?

Lynn in Fargo