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In order to pay homage to his memory in the centennial of his death and to shed light on his later medical condition, this paper seeks to reexamine his last days from a medico-historical perspective. Our findings indicate that there was a notable decline in his health occurring after 1917 when he was confined to social isolation. A carbuncle was diagnosed in his posterior neck when he was 35-years of age and not satisfactorily treated. In late February 1920, he developed progressive symptoms over two weeks consisting initially of a headache, followed by fever, delirium, hallucinations, and diplopia. These clinical signs and symptoms are clinically suggestive of a septic encephalopathy presumably caused by staphylococcus aureus infection secondary to the carbuncle, or perhaps by one of the myriad causes of viral meningoencephalitis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/0967772020958966","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,14]],"date-time":"2020-09-14T02:06:36Z","timestamp":1600049196000},"page":"125-131","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Medical conditions of Omer Seyfettin (1884\u20131920), the father of Turkish short stories, enshrined as a mystery"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"30","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8705-0232","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Halil","family":"Tekiner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Steven Howard","family":"Yale","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eileen Scott","family":"Yale","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mehmet","family":"Doganay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-0967772020958966","unstructured":"Y\u00f6ntem AC. \u00d6mer\u2019in \u00f6l\u00fcm hastal\u0131\u011f\u0131na dair notlar\u0131m (My notes on \u00d6mer\u2019s fatal disease). 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