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- <text id=90TT2089>
- <title>
- Aug. 06, 1990: It's All In The Ear
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 45
- It's All in the Ear
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Wendy Cole/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> To historians, Vincent Van Gogh was an inspired madman: his
- stormy psychedelia reflected a tormented soul. Now, 100 years
- after his suicide, it seems the Dutch painter wasn't insane or
- epileptic. He had Meniere's disease, says a report in the
- Journal of the American Medical Association based on a review
- of 796 of his letters. The ailment can cause hallucinations and
- a ringing in the ear. Severing it was probably his way of
- finding relief.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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