Apologies for diverting the subject matter away from Bonaparte's nomenclature, but I do hope members will agrees that contemporary health matters and medicine, military and civil, is a very important topic and often ignored or marginalised by military historians! Such issues can make or break armies, generals and even emperors! By the by, at the mention of abdominal 'colic', I'm pretty sure that Bonaparte was subject to Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Such symptoms as he was reported to have were compatible with this often debilitating condition. Anyway back to other matters. Michael.