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"Dr. Jones, Franklin's physician, informed the readers of Franklin's final illness. He had been suffering from empyema, pus filling in his lung brought on by attacks of pleurisy many years earlier. An abscess in Franklin's lung burst and he passed into a coma."

-- http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/grave.htm

While he "attended to" many women, this is not what killed him.
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No, he died from old age (at 83) in 1826.

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Yes. He had vaginal tout.

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