http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/06/17/skeleton-of-dead-young-italian-art-star-caravaggio-found-full-of-lead Comments On: Skeleton of Dead Young Italian Art Star Caravaggio Found Full of Lead by Deirdre Hering en-us Copyright 2013 The L Magazine. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The L Magazine readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The L Magazine. editor@thelmagazine.com (The L Magazine Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Sat, 25 May 2013 23:00:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss In the same vein, if Beethoven, and this may never be known, had a habit of licking his pencil before writing, as many sketching artists did in the past, to give a stronger impression to the strokes of the pencil, then, perhaps lead poisoning was one of the conditions for his death.
I don't think either can be discounted.
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