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What Killed Mozart?
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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