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  • Title: Mozart and smallpox.
    Author: Zegers RH.
    Journal: Clin Exp Ophthalmol; 2007; 35(4):372-3. PubMed ID: 17539792.
    Abstract:
    In 1767 at 11 years of age, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart contracted smallpox, allegedly causing him temporary blindness. Although now eradicated, smallpox in those days had a high mortality rate, and the history of classical music would have been very different if Mozart had become permanently blind, or died, as a result of the disease.
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