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Frank Rosenthal
East Los Angeles College Monterey Park, Calif

JAMA. 1978;239(18):1845.

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To the Editor.—

I was distressed to see the recent article by Myron R. Schoenfeld, MD, on aspects of Paganini's medical history (238:40, 1978). The author makes various sweeping medical claims without proper deductive proof and authentication. A careful analysis of extant data is not given.

He does not refer to the previous issue of THE JOURNAL that carried a well researched article on the same topic by Smith and Worthington (199:820, 1967). Bibliographic entries in standard encyclopedias are more complete than Schoenfeld's bibliography. Schoenfeld certainly did not prove that the great virtuoso had Marfan's syndrome. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by John D. Archer, MD, Senior Editor.

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