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Jan V. Hirschmann, MD

Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:1381-1389.

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INTRODUCTION

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna on December 5, 1791, 2 months before his 36th birthday.¹(p415) His 29-year-old wife, Constanze, became so distraught that she crawled into bed with her dead husband, unsuccessfully attempting to contract his illness and die with him.²(p153) A physician, legally required to examine the body to exclude foul play, found nothing amiss but performed no autopsy.¹(p523) Regulations specified that interment not occur until 48 hours after death, apparently to ensure that no one was buried alive.³(p169) During that time, a service took place at St Stephen's Cathedral, where he and Constanze had wed 9 years earlier, and probably on the night of December 7, during inclement weather, a hearse transported the corpse to a cemetery in St Marx, a village about 5 km outside Vienna. Without ceremony or a priest in attendance, Mozart was interred, probably in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

RUMORS OF POISONING

THE TESTIMONY ABOUT MOZART'S DEATH

PREVIOUSLY PROPOSED MEDICAL EXPLANATIONS

A NEW HYPOTHESIS

From the Medical Service, Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.

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