One author, Ishbel Addyman, varies from other biographers and claims that he was not a Gascon aristocrat, but a descendant of a Sardinian fishmonger and that the Bergerac appellation stemmed from a small estate near Paris where he was born, and not in Gascony, and that he may have suffered tertiary syphilis.
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More significantly, his assertion that Dykes s ill-health was a consequence of overwork, exacerbated by his clash with Bishop Baring, has recently been questioned; one scholar suggests that the medical evidence points to his having succumbed to tertiary syphilis, and speculates that Dykes may have contracted the disease during his undergraduate years.
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Probably worth an article . . . Beethoven turns up on every such list, whether autistic / asperger, bipolar whatever, probably he was just an alcoholic, Schumann suffered from tertiary syphilis and not BPI ( as per reference provided, etc, Again, please "'delete "'asap . Refdoc 20 : 42, 23 Feb 2005 ( UTC)
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Diseases such as diabetic neuropathy, multiple sclerosis, tumors, and, rarely, tertiary syphilis may also impact the activity, as could the failure of various organ systems ( such as the heart and lungs ), endocrine disorders ( thyroid, pituitary, or adrenal gland problems ), hormonal deficiencies ( low testosterone, other androgens, or estrogen ) and some birth defects.
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In the years before his death he continued to wander in and out of the dementia of tertiary syphilis, in the lucid periods devoting himself to the work of the centre at Huizen and to the establishment of a lesser centre at Tekels Park near Camberley, Surrey, in England, where he lived almost entirely from 1937 onwards.
