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    Tchaikovsky’s Cure for All That Ails (the Stomach)

    by Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky May 07, 2018 2 minutes

    Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov, Pjotr I. Tschaikowski (detail), 1893, oil on canvas.

    Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky died on November 6, 1893, at age fifty-three, after having been discovered by his younger brother, Modest, in bed and suffering from diarrhea and abdominal pains. He had taken cod liver oil in an attempt to ease his stomach. In

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