[Magdalen] Florence Foster Jenkins

[ME Michaud]

She said arsenic. And mercury, I think.

Her husband told the doctor she sometimes had seizures.

She could no longer play the piano because of nerve damage in her left
hand. Her accompaniest sweetly played the left-hand part of the Chopin
prelude while she played the right-hand part.
-M


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> 6/2016 2:45:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> I wonder if she ever had the treatment available for her day:   Salvarsan?
> Though by the time syphilis has progressed to the tertiary stage,
> treatment is of limited value.  The damage has usually been  done
> but further progression can be accomplished.
>
> Areas hit by the treponema organism are also those hit by the
> related Lyme disease:  Skin, cardiac, CNS, joints, babies in  utero.
>
>