Vrubel's mental illness was initiated or complicated by tertiary syphilis.
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In October 1929 his father Roger Ackerley died of tertiary syphilis.
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Isabella Beeton did not die of puerpal fever but tertiary syphilis.
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He died from complications of tertiary syphilis in 1917.
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Some years ago Barnes edited and translated a memoir by Alphonse Daudet recounting the agony of tertiary syphilis.
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Nietzsche's mental illness was originally diagnosed as tertiary syphilis, in accordance with a prevailing medical paradigm of the time.
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It was only after his death of tertiary syphilis at age 51, in 1883, that he was recognized as one of the great masters of the 19th century.
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It became newsworthy once again in the Aids-obsessed 1980s, when the distraught man behind Cupid was said to signify not jealousy or despair, but tertiary syphilis.
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However according to Addyman he was merely a victim of street mugging, and died from effects of tertiary syphilis in an asylum, in which he was confined by his own brother Abel de Syrano.