Matching diseases

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990507.html

Ok Cecil says this:
“The practice of trying to match diseases with well-known figures in history or folklore has a long and not entirely reputable history.”

What are some examples of some other diseases that have been associated with figures in folklore and history?

Abraham Lincoln and Marfan syndrome?
Mona Lisa and facial palsy?
Vincent Van Gogh and epilepsia?
English King George III and mental illness?

(just examples from memory, I don’t guarantee 100% accuracy.)

P.S. I forgot Napoleon’s ulcer. And Britney Spears’ alleged breast implants.

Edgar Allan Poe supposedly dying of rabies. I started a thread in GQ about it a while back: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=47100

That was George III and porphyria, which another current thread is discussing.

This isn’t a disease, but there’s a guy who wants to exhume Meriwether Lewis to prove he was murdered rather than committed suicide. Lewis was probably a manic-depressive.

Speaking of digging people up . . .

They exhumed President Zachary Taylor’s body in 1991 to see if he had been poisoned. He hadn’t been.