They have been recovered in 15% of patients with chronic mastoiditis. Patients may also develop sepsis, mastoiditis, otitis media, and lymphadenopathy. Bacon died on May 29, 1919, from blood poisoning after undergoing surgery on his mastoiditis. With prompt treatment, it is possible to cure mastoiditis. Multiple diseases have been suggested, such as mastoiditis, meningitis, or otitis exacerbated into an abscess. Such diagnoses include malignant (or necrotizing) otitis externa, mastoiditis, temporal arteritis, and cancer. A serious bout of mastoiditis as a child left him deaf in his left ear. When he was a child, his brother, Norman, developed a chronic mastoiditis. While growing up, Hitchman contracted Mastoiditis. For this reason, mastoiditis is rare in developed countries. In 1922, Guggenheim's son John died of mastoiditis just before leaving for college.