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Mozart and liver dumplings
I re-watched the movie Amadeus and then went online to find out about his death. The poor guy only lived to be 35. There is no consensus on his death, with symptoms that could be many things: intense vomiting, fever and rashes, pain all over. He may have had kidney dysfunction, some of his likenesses show facial puffiness, and his biography states he had major swelling all around his body as he became more gravely ill.
After reading about his death, I glanced at some other things about his life. He had a favorite food: liver dumplings.
At one point in the years before his death he fell very ill and even told his wife that he suspected he'd been poisoned. Salieri was accused of doing it, but maybe Mozart had poisoned himself...slowly or more acutely sometimes... with liver dumplings. ?
Interesting too that he lived what was probably a high stress life (as a child prodigy and then court musician) and several here have lately been wondering about vitamin-A clearance not happening when we are in "fight or flight" mode all the time.
I re-watched the movie Amadeus and then went online to find out about his death. The poor guy only lived to be 35. There is no consensus on his death, with symptoms that could be many things: intense vomiting, fever and rashes, pain all over. He may have had kidney dysfunction, some of his likenesses show facial puffiness, and his biography states he had major swelling all around his body as he became more gravely ill.
After reading about his death, I glanced at some other things about his life. He had a favorite food: liver dumplings.
At one point in the years before his death he fell very ill and even told his wife that he suspected he'd been poisoned. Salieri was accused of doing it, but maybe Mozart had poisoned himself...slowly or more acutely sometimes... with liver dumplings. ?
Interesting too that he lived what was probably a high stress life (as a child prodigy and then court musician) and several here have lately been wondering about vitamin-A clearance not happening when we are in "fight or flight" mode all the time.
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Hermes on May 2, 2026, 12:42 pm
What uncanny intuition by Mozart! On the other hand, vitamin A toxicity makes you paranoid. I remember that phase clearly. I lived with two other guys. One was a friend, the other I didn't know. And we just didn't click. I was scared he was out to get me. Seriously. I laugh at this now, but vitamin A poisoning is real. It turns anybody into a bitch.
As for famous examples: Darwin is another one who enjoyed liver. I think Grant wrote about him in detail in one of his books. Probably, the high-society suffered more from such dietary afflictions than the hoi polloi. I wouldn't be surprised if this even applies today: Think of foie gras and caviar. Well served in upscale fancy places like Gstaad Palace in Switzerland, a hotel in the Alps for the überrich who don't know how to throw away money.
Particularly Asian countries, I remember for their beautiful and slender women. And what's their staple? Rice. Everything else is a condiment.
What uncanny intuition by Mozart! On the other hand, vitamin A toxicity makes you paranoid. I remember that phase clearly. I lived with two other guys. One was a friend, the other I didn't know. And we just didn't click. I was scared he was out to get me. Seriously. I laugh at this now, but vitamin A poisoning is real. It turns anybody into a bitch.
As for famous examples: Darwin is another one who enjoyed liver. I think Grant wrote about him in detail in one of his books. Probably, the high-society suffered more from such dietary afflictions than the hoi polloi. I wouldn't be surprised if this even applies today: Think of foie gras and caviar. Well served in upscale fancy places like Gstaad Palace in Switzerland, a hotel in the Alps for the überrich who don't know how to throw away money.
Particularly Asian countries, I remember for their beautiful and slender women. And what's their staple? Rice. Everything else is a condiment.
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Navid on May 3, 2026, 1:32 pm
Wow, nice find. This is fascinating connection!
Wow, nice find. This is fascinating connection!
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