actually, claiming beethoven's death was a result of an STD is a bit
misleading...
his death has been most often attributed to liver failure due to cirrhosis
(which, btw, was confirmed by autopsy)...
"Chronic active hepatitis due to viral or auto-immune disease is a
possibility, but it is not necessary to invoke this as an explanation in a
patient known to have been drinking heavily over a thirty-year period.
--O'Shea, 1991" (
http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/lethin/beethoven.html)
---brian
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Doyle [mailto:wobbyamb@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:17 AM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: [idm] art by assholes - Miles Davis and drugs
Beethoven died of an STD...that's what made him deaf in the first
place....just shows what sex has done to music
quoted 4 lines this may not really be quite pertinent, but I'd like to remind
>this may not really be quite pertinent, but I'd like to remind
>everyone that Mozart died cause he was a massive alcoholic... if
>that wasnt his cause of death, I can at least tell you for a
>fact that he drank a WHOLE LOT. so did Beethoven.....
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