4 Marat’s own physicians diagnosed him with scrofula, 5 but this condition of tuberculous lymph node involvement does not fit the clinical picture. Scabies has been suggested as a cause, but scabies does not usually involve the face in adults, and, as a physician, Marat would have recognized it and used “the reliable form of therapy” that was then available. Murphy 3 states that Marat’s contemporaries believed he had leprosy, “and some people began to treat him as a leper,” but this too is an incorrect diagnosis.
#The death of marat andrew bird have a nice life skin#
During his lifetime, Marat’s enemies claimed that his skin eruption was syphilitic, though none of the features of his rash (itch, duration) support this notion. There have been centuries of speculation about the nature of his disease. Marat believed that his skin disease was caused by his earlier years as a fugitive hiding in the cellars and sewers of Paris. 2 His only relief came from spending long periods in his bath. Marat was around forty-five when the itching and vesico-bullous lesions began, first on the scrotum, then the groin and perineum, and later became widespread. It was in this bathtub that he was murdered by Charlotte Corday (1768-1793), a scene immortalized in the painting Marat Assassiné by Jacques-Louis David. A tormenting itch caused him to spend whole days 1 in his custom-made bathtub, from which he wrote revolutionary articles and received visitors. He also suffered from a chronic, intractable skin condition, which troubled the last five years of his life.
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) was a practicing physician, scientist, and a leader of the French Revolution. L’Assassinat de Marat / Charlotte Corday. Another look at the medical problems of Jean-Paul Marat: searching for a unitary diagnosis September 16, 2020
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