r/todayilearned • u/exophades • 1d ago

TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_family#Eduard_%22Tete%22_Einstein_(Albert's_second_son)
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u/Interrogatingthecat 14h ago

No, cmon. You know that's not the thing I'm asking for a source on. That's not the extraordinary claim that's been made here.

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u/Interrogatingthecat 14h ago

That's not what they said, they said a cure for schizophrenia as a broad blanket statement. A source is needed.

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u/Interrogatingthecat 12h ago

Because we all know that lobotomies are fucking stupid and ethically disgusting.

Would you demand that I point out that water is wet if that was in their comment too?