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>In 1880, after drinking large quantities of wine and six hard-boiled eggs spread with butter, he vomited repeatedly, began to stammer, complained of paralysis of his facial muscles, and was convinced that he had a stroke. For many years he had two physicians taking care of him but thought they were useless, making mountains out of molehills, their prescriptions worthless, and expecting them to restore his health without having him change his lifestyle. One of the doctors who attended him described him “as hysterical as a woman.”