Talk:Bedřich Smetana
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. | ||
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. [FAQ] | ||
 |
This article is part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Deaf, a project to improve Wikipedia's articles related to sign languages, Deaf culture, deafness etc. For guidelines see the project page or talk page |
According to last research of doc. MUDr. Jiří Ramba, DrSc., Smetana did not suffer from syphilis. High concentrations of quicksilver found in his body after his death (which led to a conclusion that Smetana had syphilis) were caused by a liniment containing quicksilver. Smetana suffered almost his whole life from inflammation of his jawbone which led also to his deafness. The research and conclusions are summarized in a book Slavné české lebky (Famous Czech Skulls), ISBN:8072623257. Miraceti 00:47, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] WTG
You beat me to it! Just yesterday or the day before I came and looked at this page and it was in rough shape. I went looking for my old music history textbook, and by the time I actually found it today, the article was already written and sourced! WTG! Yipely 20:15, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
