Month: December 2017
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Happy Christmas!
The highlight for 2017 was the centenary of Consumption: Its Cause and Cure on September 4th following the discovery of a published transcript in 2013. In this all-but-forgotten speech, Dr Sutherland expressed frustration at the man-made obstacles to the fight against tuberculosis in general, and at the needless deaths of 10,000 children from tuberculous milk, in particular—…
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A strange post-mortem 2/2
This is the part two of the blog post that relates to Saint John Southworth. Again the scene and time is changed. On a wet and windy day, 14th December 1929, in an upper room of St. Edmund’s College, Ware, Hertford, a small group gathered round a wooden case sealed with the arms of Douay.…