FASHIONABLE INFLUENZA
Robert Burns's Experience LONDON, Dec. 1. Influenza was "fashionable" 150 years ago, according to Robert Burns. In 1788 he caught the complaint. The letter descrlbing his wretchedness was sold in a London auction room thi:vveek for £105. He wrote: — "I am scarce able to hold up mv liead with this fashionable influenza: yet with only lialf a spark of life f would thank you. ' ' A reference to " a haughtv landlord to whom I owed what I coul dnot pay" shows his poverty at the time. Another Burns manuscript realised £380. Both were bought for the Burns Museum at Alloway.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 78, 24 December 1937, Page 12
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101FASHIONABLE INFLUENZA Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 78, 24 December 1937, Page 12
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