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To: cloud8
I think it was the syphilis that made the Roman emperors psychopaths.
11 posted on 12/07/2005 4:33:04 PM PST by toothfairy86
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To: toothfairy86

"I think it was the syphilis that made the Roman emperors psychopaths."

Interesting. I had never given that a thought. Extremely likely indeed. That suddenly explains a lot!

Thank you.


12 posted on 12/07/2005 4:38:37 PM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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Is that Howard Dean's excuse?

What about Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton?

Perhaps they are all afflicting with forms of syphilitic dementia.........


15 posted on 12/07/2005 4:50:10 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: toothfairy86

> I think it was the syphilis that made the Roman emperors psychopaths.

Syphilis was brought to Europe from the New World by Columbus. Of composers, Schubert died of it.

But to get back to the thread.... when he had become deaf, LVB conversed with his friends--he had them--via pencil and paper in notebooks that have been preserved. No analysis of them that I'm aware of has ever suggested he had lead poisoning.


20 posted on 12/07/2005 5:03:52 PM PST by cloud8
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