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News
News: May/June 2003
Nietzsche ‘not syphilitic’ • Dolly on Display • Stamboul Welcomes Careful Thinkers • See Zurich and Die • What Do You Get if you Cross a Cow with a Piece of Cheese? — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and Lisa Sangoi in New York
The Madness of King Freddy
According to a new study, Friedrich Nietzsche’s descent into madness may have been due to a brain tumour and not, as has been widely supposed, to syphilis. After his collapse in 1889 an asylum in Basle diagnosed him as being in the advanced stage of syphilis, which he is said to have caught in a Leipzig brothel. However, Dr Leonard Sax of Maryland says in the Journal of Medical Biography that Nietzsche’s medical notes don’t record the main symptoms of syphilis and are more consistent with a slowly-developing brain tumour.
You’re looking swell, Dolly..
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