Beethoven’s Triad: Diarrhoea, Deafness and Cirrhosis - Abstract
Beethoven suffered from chronic relapsing diarrhoea from
his early twenties and in his early thirties, from progressive
deafness, which his late eighteenth-century doctors believed
was related to his diarrhoea. He died from cirrhosis of the liver
aged 57 in 1820. The multiple diagnoses suggested since he died
have included lead poisoning, alcoholic cirrhosis, viral hepatitis,
inflammatory eye disease, rheumatism