| Title |
Syphilis in composers and musicians—Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Schubert, Schumann, Smetana
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|---|---|
| Published in |
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, July 2008
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10096-008-0571-x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
C. Franzen |
| 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. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 2 | 22% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |
| France | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 5 | 56% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 4 | 44% |
| Scientists | 3 | 33% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 22% |
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| Thailand | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 48 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 8 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 14% |
| Unknown | 16 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 29% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 10% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 4% |
| Psychology | 2 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 7 | 14% |
| Unknown | 17 | 35% |
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