He was given the Last Rites of the Catholic Church thirty-six hours before his demise and may have been aphasic at that time.Īshley H. Oscar Wilde had serious cerebral disturbances resulting from long-standing suppuration of the right ear and made a diagnosis of “meningoencephalitis.” The absence of localizing signs made “surgical intervention” untenable. The two physicians signed a joint statement that Mr. Paul Claisse, who had an academic background in medicine. Tucker called in a Parisian physician, Dr. His condition worsened during the first three weeks of November when he became delirious and unable to get out of bed. A dressing attendant, daily dressing changes and open wound packings, and frequent morphine injections were required. The surgery was major and expensive, £60, which would be about £3000 in today’s currency. A surgeon was called in and on Octoan operation was performed under chloroform in Wilde’s hotel room. Maurice a’Court Tucker, the British Embassy doctor, for headaches and a flareup of his chronic ear infection. In early October 1900, he was seen by Dr. He resumed many of the bad living habits he had acquired prior to his imprisonment a lack of exercise, over-eating, and abuse of alcohol. The petition brought an outside practitioner who certified the presence of a perforated left tympanic membrane and a foul discharge.Īfter serving his two-year sentence, Wilde left England and resided in Dieppe on the Normandy coast, Italy, Switzerland, the Riviera, and Paris. ![]() He stated that the symptoms had been present during the entire time of his imprisonment, and beyond irrigation with water on three occasions he had received little attention. In July of 1896 he submitted a petition to the Home Secretary from Reading Gaol stating that he was suffering from total deafness in the right ear and an abscess that had perforated the ear drum. ![]() He was sentenced to two years imprisonment and hard labor from to May 18, 1897. After an initial trial in which the jury was unable to reach a verdict, Wilde was again tried and found guilty on May 25, 1895. That Oscar Wilde’s father, Sir William Robert Wilde (1815 – 1876), was a distinguished Irish eye surgeon and pioneer in the field of otology in the nineteenth century has been cited as the first in several ironical facts in the biographies of both men.įollowing an unsuccessful libel suit brought by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensberry, Wilde was arrested on Apfor “gross indecency” under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment of 1885. The cause of his fatal illness was meningoencephalitis, a complication of a chronic middle ear infection manifested by otorrhea and unilateral deafness. His assumed name eluded few as to his true identity, Oscar Wilde. ![]() I will try to reply to anything polite, but abuse will be ignored / mentioned to my friends for a laugh.A bit of irony: Sir William Wilde and Oscar Wilde February 11, 2019Įarly 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. Sorry, but you can always unsubscribe if you think I’m an idiot. The way to contact me is to sign up to my newsletter and reply to one of those, or take the email address from it. Contact.ĭue to web crawlers and spammers I don’t have my email publicly displayed. ![]() There’s no picture here because he’s rather shy he also doesn’t like writing in third person. Robert’s first novel was called Adored, and was described by a reader as “very good but really, really depressing.” If you’re (un)lucky he might release it one day. In terms of fiction, he is inspired by the old masters like MR James and Lovecraft, but also modern writers like Steven Moffat. He is passionate about writing history in a way people will engage with. He has an MA in history from Sheffield University and has written about the subject digitally and in print for over twenty years. He covers non-fiction, particularly history, but loves writing stories and hopes people will love reading them too. Robert Wilde is a writer from Flitwick in Britain, and he’s mentioned that partly because of the Harry Potter connection.
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