Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire ... In 1923, he was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw, a result of years of cigar smoking. He was 67. He would have 30 operations over the ...

of jaw cancer.” Such staggering losses tend to soften the figure of Sigmund Freud, to remove the standard notion of him as ...

SIGMUND FREUD. (credit: ‘Outsider ... during his later years he had to cope with his cancer diagnosis – which he understood all too well would eventually kill him – and with the deaths ...

The proud father of six children, Freud saw two of his sons sent to fight in World War I and lost his daughter Sophie to the flu epidemic shortly thereafter. Cancer of the mouth plagued him for ...