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by kevin on December 8, 2005
Lead poisoning:
On Tuesday morning, Walsh stood at a lectern at Argonne National Laboratory, near Darien, and verified what some had suspected about the great composer who was plagued for three decades by digestion problems, chronic abdominal pain, irritability and depression: He had died from lead poisoning.
So confounded and distressed by his plight, which also included extremely foul body odor and halitosis, Beethoven left written requests that a physician examine his body after his death to determine the cause of his demise in hope of saving others from the same fate.
Using advanced X-ray technology at Argonne, scientists helped confirm that Beethoven, who died in 1827 at age 56, had 60 times more lead in his system than what is considered average today.
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Response from:
karina
(04/01/09 12:25pm)
beethoven was killed by who?
Response from:
linto
(02/04/10 10:20am)
i think that bethoven died because of poison. i love his song fur elise, i can also play it because i love it very much. i am so sad that bethoven is actullay dead because he was a little young to die.
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