La enfermedad de Johann Sebastian Bach y su mediático médico inglés

Miranda, M.

Keywords: cataract, history, music, Sepsis.

Abstract

Johann Sebastian Bach suffered during the last year of his life of a progressive visual defect despite two operations done by a famous but quite controversial English ocular surgeon of that time. The exact diagnosis of his ocular problems is unclear but cataracts and complicated glaucoma seem the most plausible. A septic complication following the ocular surgery could have weakened Bach's health leading to his death only three months after the last intervention. In this paper diverse less known aspects of Bach's disease and life are reported.

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Título de la Revista: REVISTA MEDICA DE CHILE
Volumen: 147
Número: 3
Editorial: SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Página de inicio: 356
Página final: 360
Idioma: Spanish
DOI:

10.4067/S0034-98872019000300356

Notas: SCIELO