ROBERT BURNS
“RHEUMATISM HIS UNDOING” A BELATED DIAGNOSIS. (Sydney "Sun” Cable.) LONDON, January 25. Sir James Crichton-Browne, the medical specialist, on the occasion of Robert Burns’s birthday, publishes a book denying that Burns died of the effects of drink. His death was due to endocarditis, which alcohol could not have produced, but might have hastensd. Rheumatism was Burns’s undoing. It''damaged his heart, embittered his life, and shortened his career.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12355, 27 January 1926, Page 8
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69ROBERT BURNS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12355, 27 January 1926, Page 8
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