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He consulted physician after physician; tried oil of almonds, cold baths and hot baths, pills and herbs and blisters; he was curious about galvanic remedies, and in his distress he wrote: "I shall as far as possible defy my fate, although there must be moments when I shall be the most miserable of God's creatures. ... I will grapple with fate; it shall never pull me down." Dr. Schmidt sent him in 1802 to the little village of Heiligenstadt, where, as the story goes, the Emperor Protus planted the first vines of Noricum. There was a spring of mineral water,—a spring of marvellous virtues,—which had been blessed by Saint Severinus, who died in the village and gave the name by which it is known to-day. Beethoven's house was on a hill outside the village, isolated, with a view of the Danube valley. Here he lived for several months like a hermit. He saw only his physician and Ferdinand Ries, his pupil, who visited him occasionally. Nature and loneliness did not console Beethoven. He had been in dismal mood since the performance of the First Symphony (April 2, 1800). The powers of darkness, "finstere Machte," to quote Wasielewski's phrase, had begun to torment him. He had already felt the first attacks of deafness. It is possible that the first symp- toms were in 1796, when, as a story goes, returning overheated from a walk, he plunged his head into cold water. "It would not be safe to say that the smallpox, which in his childhood left marks on his face, was a remote cause of his deafness." In 1800-01 Beethoven wrote about his deafness and intestinal troubles to Dr. IS THE MOST BELOVED OF ALL INSTRUMENTS The HARP is the easiest of all string Children actually play pleasing melodies instruments to learn in nine lessons THE LYON & THE WILLIAM PLACE, Jr., THE CLARK HEALY CON- CERT HARP MUSIC CO. IRISH HARP $75.00 and $550.00 208 UNION STREET and upward * $150.00 PROVIDENCE, R. I. 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