know very much in those days, compared to what they know now. Pouring hot oil into his ears: can you imagine what that must have felt like?” The early theories for his ailments, deafness and eventually death ranged from typhus, syphilis, and severe lead poisoning. The doctors of our time maintain that it might have been coronary disease or perhaps lupus. His health issues and cause of death remains a mystery (Barron, 2010).
In 1994, a lock of Beethoven’s hair, known as the Guevara Lock, was auctioned…
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