ROBERT BURNS’ DEATH
CAUSE WAS RHEUMATISM, NOT DRINK. LONDON, January 25. Sir James Criohl on-Browne. on the occasion of Robert Burns’s birthday, publishes a book denying that Burns died of the effects of drink. Death was due to endocarditis, which alcohol could not have produced, but might have hastened. Rheumatism was Burns’s undoing. It damaged his life and shortened his career.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3256, 28 January 1926, Page 10
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