Goya's Mystery Illness: Nearly 200 Years Later, Docs Have a Diagnosis
By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer | April 28, 2017 12:48pm ET
The famous Spanish painter Francisco Goya suffered a mysterious illness and lost his hearing at the age of 46, and now experts may have figured out why.
Goya is considered the most important Spanish painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. But in the middle of his career, in 1793, he developed a severe illness that left him bedridden for months. He experienced headaches, dizziness, hallucinations, vision problems and ringing in his ears. Most of these symptoms eventually went away, but the illness left him deaf. He lived to be 82 years old.
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