Medical Aid for Musical Maladies

Abstract

Musicians like other mortals, are subject to the same indignities and frailties of the body as we lesser beings are, and they too turn to dust just as we do. Their illnesses and deaths are really no more exotic than anyone else's but because of the special positions which these people fill in our lives their afflictions and demises seem to have an extra significance and fascination for us. The tragedy is that many of the musicians died at a very early age denying us possible works of enormous dimensions and significance, and that if they had lived today the illnesses could possibly have been cured and their lives saved by simple and inexpensive modern measures.