What Killed Burns and What Did Not?

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The poet and songwriter Robert Burns died in 1796, aged 37. There was no post-mortem and hence no tissue diagnosis. Detractors, commencing with unsigned obituaries, assigned the cause firmly to alcoholism.

This talk examines the evidence for a range of alternative diagnoses.

Speaker : Professor Emeritus David Purdie (Hull & York University Medical School)

Physicians' Gallery · Ep.24 - What Killed Burns And What Did Not?