1 a stroke resulting from a brain haemorrhage
Effective treatment of depression following apoplexy with citalopram.
The word "apoplexy" may have been used to refer to the symptom of sudden loss of consciousness immediately preceding death.
Suggested causes of death include exhaustion, malnutrition, apoplexy, pneumonia and possibly tuberculosis.
However, this is apocryphal as documentation indicates he died of apoplexy after three years of marriage.
An attack of apoplexy put an end to his teaching career and hastened his death.
Before the introduction of steroid replacement, the mortality from pituitary apoplexy approximated 50%.
On his way to preach a retreat he was struck by apoplexy in a lonely place.
At the inquest, the cause of death was found to be a cerebral haemorrhage, or apoplexy, probably a stroke.
