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Show Adolf Menzel's Hydrocephalus. The doctors who carried out the autopsy on Adolf von Menzel's remains stato that his lungs showed that he had suffered ns a young man from tuberculosis; yet ho lived to bo nearly 90 years old. Thoy further fur-ther state that ho was "hydrocephalic" that Is, had water on the brain. In this respect resombllng tho great mathematician, mathemati-cian, Helmholz, a proof that men of the greatest genius may exist with tho skull formation usually associated with an infirm in-firm mind, London Chronicle. |