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The famed and controversial Irish playwright Oscar Wilde died a hundred years ago this week with his reputation in ruins and his finances in tatters.Author of works such as "The Picture of Dorian ...
LONDON, England -- Flamboyant Irish writer and wit Oscar Wilde did not die of syphilis but from a chronic ear infection that spread to the brain, medical experts said. A week shy of the 100th ...
LONDON, Nov. 24 -- A century after his death in Paris, a team of doctors has concluded that controversial poet and dramatist Oscar Wilde died as the result of a severe ear infection, not from ...
Oscar Wilde, the 20th century’s most famous sexual dissident, ... Although it is still not known if that death was caused by syphilis or a rare type of middle ear infection, ...
A new theory has surfaced about what caused the death of famed 19th-century writer Oscar Wilde. Researchers say the flamboyant author did not succumb to syphilis – but instead to a chronic ea… ...
Oscar Wilde, whose plays still entertain audiences 100 years after his death, did not die of syphilis but from a chronic ear infection that spread to the brain.
OSCAR WILDE died of an ear infection after doctors at Reading jail neglected to treat his condition, a new study into the playwright concludes. Oscar Wilde: 'Had a chronic and destructive middle ...
AS Mark Twain might have said of Oscar Wilde's passing . . . reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. For decades, it has been widely assumed the Irish poet and playwright died from syphilis ...
Flamboyant Irish writer and wit Oscar Wilde, whose plays still entertain audiences 100 years after his death, did not die of syphilis but from a chronic ear infection that spread to the brain ...
No, Oscar Wilde probably didn’t die of syphilis. The long-held theory was that Oscar Wilde succumbed to the ravages of end-stage syphilis. Fortunately, a London neurologist and two ear surgeons ...