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Originally posted by QuaShe
it makes you cut your ear off, don't do it!
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I think it's now believed that Van Gogh had a severe chronic ear infection.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th-century philosopher, complained of a buzzing in his ears that went on for 30 years. Vincent Van Gogh is said to have cut off his ear during an excruciating bout of tinnitus
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http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2000/07/tinnitus.html