Mozart and smallpox.
作者信息
Zegers Richard H C
机构信息
Department of Ophthalmology, Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
出版信息
Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2007 May-Jun;35(4):372-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01488.x.
Abstract
In 1767 at 11 years of age, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart contracted smallpox, allegedly causing him temporary blindness. Although now eradicated, smallpox in those days had a high mortality rate, and the history of classical music would have been very different if Mozart had become permanently blind, or died, as a result of the disease.
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