
Episode 4 - Digitalis and Van Gogh
The Curious Clinicians
00:00
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.
Transcript
Play full episode