Walter Cannon
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Physiologist who described death from extreme fear in 1942
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentSandeep JaharTED Radio Hour · How to mend a broken heart · 8:23 · 8 May
…In 1942, the Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon published a paper called Voodoo Death, in which he described cases of death from fright in people who believed they had been cursed, such as by a witch doctor or as a consequence of eating taboo fruit.…
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