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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Another attempt to apply medicine to history

What killed Mozart? Study suggests strep infection

The Annals of Internal Medicine has published a report linking Mozart's death with kidney disease brought on by a streptococcal infection. Although such attempts to practice medicine retroactively are fraught with uncertainty, I always find the attempts to diagnose symptoms from the descriptions left behind interesting. I'll have to look this one up.

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