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=== 科学的結論 ===
フランクリン遠征隊法医人類学プロジェクトの現場調査、発掘、墓の掘り出しは10年以上にわたって続いた。キングウィリアム島とビーチー島の人工物および人間の遺骸を調査した結果によれば、ビーチー島の隊員の死因はは肺炎<ref>{{cite journal | last = Amy | first = Roger |author2= Bhatnagar, Rakesh|author3= Damkjar, Eric|author4= Beattie, Owen | title = The last Franklin Expedition: report of a postmortem examination of a crew member | journal = Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)| volume = 135 | pages = 115–117 | date = 15 July 1986| pmid = 3521821 | issue = 2 | pmc = 1491204}}</ref>と、兵卒ウィリアム・ブレインに発見された[[脊椎カリエス]]という証拠が示唆するように、おそらくは結核である可能性が高い<ref>{{cite journal | last = Notman | first = Derek N.H. |author2= Anderson, Lawrence, Beattie, Owen B.|author3=Amy, Roger | title = Arctic Paleoradiology: Portable Radiographic Examination of Two Frozen Sailors from the Franklin Expedition (1845–48)| journal = American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)| volume = 149 | pages = 347–350 | year = 1987 | publisher = American Roentgen Ray Society | url=http://www.ajronline.org/search.dtl |format= PDF |accessdate=14 February 2008| issn = 0361-803X | doi=10.2214/ajr.149.2.347}}</ref>。毒物学的調査は寄与因子として[[鉛中毒]]を挙げている<ref>{{cite journal | last = Kowall | first = Walter |author2= Beattie, Owen B.|author3=Baadsgaard, Halfdan | title = Did solder kill Franklin's men? | journal = Nature | volume = 343 | issue = 6256 | pages = 319–320 | date = 25 January 1990 | doi = 10.1038/343319b0}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Kowall | first = W.A. |author2= Krahn, P.M.|author3=Beattie, O. B. | title = Lead Levels in Human Tissues from the Franklin Forensic Project | journal = International Journal Environmental Analytical Chemistry | volume = 35 | issue = 2 | pages = 119–126 | date = 29 June 1988 | publisher = Gordon and Breach Science Publishers | doi = 10.1080/03067318908028385}}</ref>。複数の隊員の骨に見られた刃物による切断跡は、人肉食の証だと見られる<ref>{{cite journal | last = Keenleyside | first = Anne |author2= Bertulli, Margaret|author3=Fricke, Henry C. | title = The Final Days of the Franklin Expedition: New Skeletal Evidence | journal = Arctic | volume = 50 | issue = 1 | pages = 36–46 | year = 1997 | publisher = The Arctic Institute of North America | url = http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-1-36.pdf | format = PDF| accessdate =30 April 2010| id = ISSN: 0004-0843 | doi=10.14430/arctic1089}}</ref>。様々な証拠は、寒さと飢え、壊血病、肺炎、結核などの病気といった要因が組み合わさり、さらに鉛中毒で悪化し、フランクリン隊全員を死に至らしめたことを示唆している<ref>Beattie, (1987), pp. 161–163</ref>。
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