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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (243076)	9/26/2007 12:28:29 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

quite frankly chronic medical conditions do have an effect on ones humor and outlook. That 6 million died as a direct result of his problem is of corse silly...however luthor was a dour person and protestantism is a dour religion.... dour (d?r, dour) adj., dour·er, dour·est. Marked by sternness or harshness; forbidding: a dour, self-sacrificing life. Silently ill-humored; gloomy: the proverbially dour New England Puritan. Sternly obstinate; unyielding: a dour determination. PS notice how dour also seems an appropriate word to discribe constipation. pss" Luther had been suffering from ill health for years, including constipation, hemorrhoids, dizziness, fainting spells, and roaring in the ears. From 1531–1546, his health deteriorated further. The years of struggle with Rome, the antagonisms with and among his fellow reformers, and the scandal which ensued from the bigamy of the Philip of Hesse incident, in which Luther had played a leading role, all may have contributed. In 1536, he began to suffer from kidney and bladder stones, and arthritis, and an ear infection ruptured an ear drum. In December 1544, he began to feel the effects of angina.[104] His physical health made him short-tempered and even harsher in his writings and comments. His wife Katie was overheard saying, "Dear husband, you are too rude," and he responded, "They are teaching me to be rude."[105]"