To the owner, this was worse than not doing it at all! And a real embarrassment to any company that came. So a servant was called clumsy or inept by their employer. Today the term means anyone (floors or not) who irritates others by a clumsy word or action.
In the evening Mozart took a turn for the worse, and his doctor, Thomas Closset, was summoned from the theater but sent word that he would come once the show was over. When he arrived, he ordered cold compresses applied to Mozartâs head, which witnesses said caused the patient to shudder.
Beethoven had been so horrified at the effects of his mortal illness (bad breath, stomach swellings), that he actually requested that doctors did an autopsy on him to figure out what happened. This was to make sure no-one else suffered like he did. Doctors performed the autopsy the day after he died.