In a 1998 article in the New England Journal of Medicine a team of doctors and historians declared his cause of death to be typhoid fever.  
In a 1998 article in the New England Journal of Medicine a team of doctors and historians declared his cause of death to be typhoid fever.  They drew their conclusion not so much from his symptoms of fever, chest pain, and partial paralysis as recorded by Plutarch and Arrian, but mainly because of strange reports that his body did not decompose until several days after his death.  For 10 points, who was this man whose body, under orders by his general Ptolemy, was then immersed in honey to prevent further decomposition during the trip to his final interment in Egypt in 323 BC?
In a 1998 article in the New England Journal of Medicine a team of doctors and historians declared his cause of death to be typhoid fever.  
Alexander III of Macedon, or Alexander the Great