Professor David Purdie, co-editor of The Burns Encyclopaedia in What killed Robert Burns – And What Did Not? discusses the medical history of the Bard, what treatment he received, what took him from us at the age of 37, and the attacks on his character launched by Press Obituaries and by his early biographers. The talk will be fully illustrated by images from the National Archives in Edinburgh.
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