Cancer of the mouth plagued him for most of his adult life, and led to over 30 operations, through which he never stopped smoking. Freud's Jewish heritage made him a target of the rising anti ...

Though he knew that his jaw cancer might have been caused by smoking, Freud would not quit on that account. With his shrunken tissues and “the monster” interfering, he sometimes had to pry his ...

Yet Freud continued to refuse his colleagues’ entreaties to leave. Suffering from cancer of the jaw, acquired from a habit of smoking 20 cigars a day, he was already in his 80s and knew he did ...

“That was the worst day … the only time I saw Freud deeply worried,” Schur wrote of the ordeal. “He paced the floor, smoking incessantly.” After hours of interrogation, Anna returned ...

Freud had two half-brothers some 20 years older ... 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 next ...