Shark 0, TB 1

Reflections on disease

I was looking at the Wikipedia page for “shark attacks”, as one does, when I found a reference to a 19th century Australian cricket player named George Coulthard. I like cricket. I like sharks. I had to check it out.

Coulthard, I found, was quite a man. As well as playing cricket and Australian rules football, he fought a world-famous bare-knuckle boxing…