Abstract
To the Editor.— The recent article by Arenberg et al 1 makes me dizzy. It includes too many misquotations, misleading and intentionally incomplete quotations, quotations out of context, cavalier editing of van Gogh's letters (eg, attacks being juxtaposed to vertige ), and twisting of symptoms to fit the proposed diagnosis (Meniere's disease). By their criteria and analysis, few of us do not have Meniere's. To spare readers of theThe Journalfrom vertiginous stimuli, briefly note the following: there is no letter 44 as cited by Arenberg et al; in letter W 4, van Gogh does not state was felt with me but rather writes I always had fits of dizziness in a horrible nightmare [my emphasis] which has left me since, but which came back regularly then.2 In letter 638 to his brother Theo, the authors quote van Gogh as writing that, An attack of vertigo
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