'The Boulogne sore throat' | Morning Star
A STRANGE and frightening disease is killing people across the world. Medical opinion is divided and it’s very difficult to get an accurate picture of what is going on. The authorities are trying to avoid a panic, travel has been disrupted and fake news is rife. All this was happening when Charles Dickens picked up his pen in August, 1856, to write a letter to Sir Joseph Olliffe, physician to the British embassy in Paris. I recently discovered the letter during my research into the great writer’s lifetime of correspondence. In it, Dickens thanked the doctor for alerting him to an outbreak...
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