Lee T C
JAMA. 1981 Feb 20;245(7):727-9.
Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch postimpressionist painter, died in 1890. He was an uncommon man. Automutilation, depression, insanity, and suicide are part of his medical history. During the last few years of his life, his paintings were characterized by halos and the color yellow. Critics have ascribed these aberrations to innumerable causes, including chronic solar injury, glaucoma, and cataracts. Van Gogh may have been under the influence of digitalis intoxication and its side effects: xanthopsia and coronas. This hypothesis is based on his twice having painted his physician holding a foxglove plant; that this medicine was used in the latter part of the 19th century in the treatment of epilepsy; and that the toxic effects of digitalis may have, in part, dictated the artist's technique.
荷兰后印象派画家文森特·梵高于1890年去世。他是个与众不同的人。自残、抑郁、精神错乱和自杀都在他的病史中有所体现。在他生命的最后几年里，他的画作以光晕和黄色为特点。评论家们将这些异常现象归因于无数种原因，包括长期日光损伤、青光眼和白内障。梵高可能受到了洋地黄中毒及其副作用的影响：黄视症和晕圈。这一假设基于他两次描绘他的医生手持毛地黄植物；这种药物在19世纪后期被用于治疗癫痫；以及洋地黄的毒性作用可能在一定程度上决定了这位艺术家的绘画技巧。
