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    Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 Dec;27(12):1151-7. doi: 10.1007/s10096-008-0571-x. Epub 2008 Jul 1.

    Syphilis in composers and musicians--Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Schubert, Schumann, Smetana.

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    Department for Internal Medicine I, University of Regensburg, 93042, Regensburg, Germany. Caspar.Franzen@Klinik.Uni-Regensburg.de

    Abstract

    In the pre-antibiotics era, syphilis was an extremely common disease. The first well-recorded European outbreak of what is now known as syphilis occurred in 1494, when it appeared among French troops besieging Naples. Thereafter, the disease spread all over Europe and, in the 18th and 19th centuries, many artists became victims of syphilis, among them poets, painters, philosophers, and musicians and composers. This review presents biographies of several musicians and composers that probably suffered from syphilis.

    PMID:
    18592279
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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