{"id":106334,"date":"2021-08-23T22:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T03:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106334"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:46:34","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-did-pushkin-start-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106334","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae Did Pushkin Start It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106334\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-75425 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ubm-photo-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ubm-photo-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ubm-photo.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my ongoing attempts to avoid current events, I occasionally listen to the music of Mozart.<\/p>\n<p>Even with my mind occupied by glorious music, dark thoughts continue to intrude. Amadeus Mozart\u2019s death at the age of thirty five has remained shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances of the musician\u2019s demise are cloudy due to rumors which began about six years after the death of Antonio Salieri, the good friend and mentor of Mozart.<\/p>\n<p>With his death at such an early age, gossip began to simmer about the circumstances. Mozart died in 1791. In 1832, the Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin published a short verse play called, Mozart and Salieri, in which he dramatized the death of Mozart as poisoning by Salieri.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Antonio Salieri was no slouch in his own right. He was a well-known Italian composer who was the teacher of many great musicians such as: Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven. Salieri was famous for his skill as a composer and a music and vocal coach. So, why on earth, would he risk being remembered for murdering a brilliant musician, rather than for his own considerable skills?<\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was never portrayed as a robust man. He has been described as being very thin and pale in appearance with a pitted complexion due to a childhood bout with smallpox.<\/p>\n<p>So much speculation.<\/p>\n<p>So few facts.<\/p>\n<p>From the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout his life Mozart suffered frequent attacks of tonsillitis. In 1784 he developed post-streptococcal Sch\u00f6nlein-Henoch syndrome which caused chronic glomerular nephritis and chronic renal failure. His fatal illness was due to Sch\u00f6nlein-Henoch purpura, with death from cerebral haemorrhage and bronchopneumonia. Venesection(s) may have contributed to his death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it is most likely that the young composer died of a streptococcal infection which lead to kidney failure.<\/p>\n<p>But, like many good writers, Alexander Pushkin could not resist a nice, juicy plot. And so he wrote his play about the final days of Mozart\u2019s life and had Amadeus Mozart drinking wine poisoned by Salieri.<\/p>\n<p>From reports at the time of his death, it appears that Mozart had swollen extremities, face and abdomen. He had some kind of a rash and complained of pain all over his body.<\/p>\n<p>The Annals of Internal Medicine has collected information of deaths around the time of Mozart\u2019s passing. A great increase in deaths of young people occurred with similar symptoms to Mozart\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Quite unlikely that Antonio Salieri could have poisoned them all!<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Bitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<\/p>\n<p>SERMO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\">www.sermo.com<\/a> \u201ctalk real world medicine\u201d<br \/>\n[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist In my ongoing attempts to avoid current events, I occasionally listen to the music of Mozart. Even with my mind occupied by glorious music, dark thoughts continue to intrude. 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