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>From a report in the German weekly "Der Spiegel":
Q: Mrs Schielke [38, Neurologist], you have just done a check-up
on a 57 years old patient who suffered from a rare kind of musical
hallucination. What did the man hear?
A: He heard folk songs, sung by mens and childrens choirs, sometimes
several at the same time. The reason was a suppurative focus at a
certain spot of the brainstorm. After having antibiotics for eleven
weeks, the abscess and the hallucinations went away.
Q: What about other patients with musical hallucinations, do they
all hear folk music?
A: They hear what they are accustomed to. A French patient heard
Verdi and Mozart, but also chansons. A Japanese who got sick during
a journey through China, heard Chinese folk music.
Q: Are these hallucinations unpleasant?
A: For some it is a nuisance because they hear several melodies at
the same time. Others think it is a nice diversion. I had a patient
ten years ago who first heard an Italian opera tenor singing very
loud and pretty out of tune. After some days it changed to arias
from "Madama Butterfly" which he found much more agreeable.
Robert Peters
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