Photo post 2: Chopin

This picture was taken in front of FrédéricChopin’s grave in the Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise. Chopin was a genius pianist and composer who was always of poor health and died at the young ag e of 39. He is supposed to have died of tuberculosis, but some researchers believe that his death may actually have had something to do with his neurology since little was known about the brain during the time of his diagnoses. Based on accounts of Chopin’s close friends and students, some researchers believe that he may “have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, which caused him to have frequent hallucinations.”

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/01/fr-d-ric-chopins-madness-diagnosed

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