Guest guest Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 sounds like the poor sod had a B12 deficiency... > > Hey, are you a Nietzsche reader? I just cant resist some sorta > not-too-relevant comment. Up in the surface world I used to read The > Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Geneology of Morals about > every 6 months. (Tao Te Ching, the Book of Job, Heraclitus, and > Kierkegaard were my other continuous focuses among books.) > > Apparently the evidence for Nietzsches syphilis is disputed. In 2003 > one Dr Leonard Sax reviewed historical evidence and suggested slow > brain cancer in an article in the Journal of Medical Biography. > > I havent read it and have no clue how much he knows about Nietzsche > or spirochetae. (Actually I have no clue how much anyone knows about > spirochetae.) N was sick for a long ass time before 1888/9. I think > he retired from his Basel professorship around age 35, which would > have been around 1878. I believe he was often bedridden, with > migraines as I recall and maybe fever. He had some very grave eye > trouble. He moved every few months in search of perfect weather. But > he frequently walked like 8 miles a day by his accounts, and > sometimes wept rapturously because of what he " envisioned for man. " > His letters prior to ~1882-4 largely comprised repetitious moaning > about his loneliness and misery, but thereafter he seems to have > become progressively rather elated (and began his best books). This > was all years prior to his insanity, which seems to have snowballed > during late 1888. He lived 9-10 years after becoming unreachably > demented. > > Actually theres no reason brain cancer and spirochetal disease > couldnt both have been present; it wouldnt be too shocking for those > to co-occur. > > If I went back thru either N or Ks letters now, I'm sure could dx > them with any number of inflammatory conditions, but of course, > above all they were 100-ft geniuses. > > Madison was an interesting semi-sickie, highly functional and > apparently somewhat happy, but with apparant bowel disease and > non-clonic " absence " seizures (I dont know the correct modern > seizure terminology) - also apparently some degree of poor mood. > This may have effected his fearful/pessimistic disposition and if so > it may arguably have had a big effect on modern world politics - he > got his way in the writing of the US constitution much more so than > anyone else did, IMO. > > > > > > > > Dear All > > > An interesting article on the effects of neonatal infection ( > > > unfortunately in rats). The first link is to a news group with a > html > > > abstract, the second to a pdf of the whole article > > > Regards > > > Windsor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.life-extension/browse_thread/ > > > > thread/b214f3f0289f28c0/2a92668c5da7613e?q=infection#2a92668c5da7613e > > > > > > http://www.apa.org/releases/earlylife_article.pdf > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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