He Was So Young that His Heart Stopped Working After Four or Five Doses of Aspirin

 106 Years Ago Today His Heart Didn't Remember How to Beat

Sunday 19th of December 1915
Psychiatrist and neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer dies of heart failure at the age of 51 in Breslau, Schlesien, Germany.

He was born in 1859 and raised in Dresden and came to the U.S. a few years later after his father, who joined the Navy, would go on to serve in the U.S. Navy. His father served in Vietnam, where he later became very well known as an early member of the Board of Selectmen for Combatant Commands, and a member of the U.S. Naval Infantry Regiment in the Eastern Bloc. He was also a member of the Council for Peace. His father died on Sunday 19th December 1915. Aloysius was the first person to enter the Air Force in World War 2.
Psychiatrist in 1912, Aloysius underwent an advanced stage of cardiac surgery in honor of his brother Dr. Albert "Abbott" Hoffman, founder of the St. Bonaventure Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. Aloysius was initially diagnosed with acute, or perinatal cardiac malformations. He subsequently developed a rare heart condition called arrhythmias because no other vascular vessels appeared to be producing the blood and his heart was still quite active. At that time, he was so young that his heart stopped working after four or five doses of aspirin.