McMichael, AnnaMcMichael, Anthony J.2015-05-132015-05-130025-729Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/13469Links between music and medicine typically focus on ailments, known or suspected, of composers — Beethoven’s deafness, Chopin’s tuberculosis, Schubert’s syphilis, Schumann’s mental disorder, Mozart’s nearly everything, Paganini’s suspected Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. But few doctors have actually written an opera libretto. One exception was the Austrian physician Josef Leopold Auenbrugger (1722–1809).© Australasian Medical Publishing Companyaustriahistory, 18th centuryhistory, 19th centuryhumanslung diseasesmusicpercussionthorax2014-12-1110.5694/mja14.004192015-12-10