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Episode 4 - Digitalis and Van Gogh

The Curious Clinicians

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The Effects of Digitalis on Van Gogh's Vision

Van Gogh used a lot of yellow color and had some blurry lights in his paintings. So that's maybe from Digitalis, like that's kind of the connection there? Basically, yes. The theory was originally described by a surgeon whose name was Dr. Thomas Courtney Lee. He wrote it in Article in JAMA in 1981.

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