Len Fehskens ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Satoshi Akima writes:
>
>>although I have not read an account detailed enough to really diagnose
>>accurately what he ultimately died from.
>
>I thought it was generally accepted that Mahler died of bacterial
>endocarditis and probably would have lived had penicillin been discovered
>sooner.

Indeed; the specialist he consulted in Paris on his final journey to Vienna
had apparently never seen such lively streptococci as in the samples he
took from Mahler.  He had the insensitivity to say as much to a colleague
in the hearing of Alma.

Deryk Barker
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