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1. And she chose for us today Chef Bill Corbett of Absinth, which is a noted San Francisco restaurant.
2. Absinth was an alcohol that was very in during various periods of Van Gogh’s life and it has a very high pure alcohol content which lowers the seizure threshold in the brain.
3. And in fact this all fits with the time periods during which he becomes most ill which is when he would drink absinth.
4. If one would drink absinth and have temporal lobe epilepsy you would expect a real rise in the amount of activity going on and more illness to the point even of being psychotic which did ultimately happen to Van Gogh in the incident where he had this big blow up with another artist and hurt his ear, you know, cut off a piece of his ear and so on.
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