Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • A bit of irony: Sir William Wilde and Oscar Wilde

    James L. FranklinChicago, Illinois, United States Early in the afternoon of November 30, 1900, thirty-six hours after he had lapsed into a coma, a man named Sebastian Melmoth died at the Hotel d’Alsace in the Rue des Beaux Art. His assumed name eluded few as to his true identity, Oscar Wilde. The cause of his…