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Causes of death: apoplexy, dropsy, smallpox, consumption.
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
By December 1826, Beethoven was quite ill, suffering from a second bout of jaundice and swollen limbs, fever, dropsy, and labored breathing.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
This offer is valid only for townsfolk with proof of dropsy, mumps, polio, lumbago, colitis, bursitis, bites of the wolf most vile, and other afflictions covered under the purview of Clifton’s marvellous medical menagerie.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020
Jackson, who survived diseases like smallpox, malaria, dysentery, rheumatism and dropsy and endured physical disability most of his adult life after being shot in the chest during a duel, was just shy of Mr. Trump in stature, standing 6-foot-1.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
By December 1826, Beethoven was quite ill, suffering from a second bout of jaundice and swollen limbs, fever, dropsy, and labored breathing.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024
This offer is valid only for townsfolk with proof of dropsy, mumps, polio, lumbago, colitis, bursitis, bites of the wolf most vile, and other afflictions covered under the purview of Clifton’s marvellous medical menagerie.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020
Jackson, who survived diseases like smallpox, malaria, dysentery, rheumatism and dropsy and endured physical disability most of his adult life after being shot in the chest during a duel, was just shy of Mr. Trump in stature, standing 6-foot-1.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
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“Dropsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dropsy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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