Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors by English Historical Fiction Authors

Author:English Historical Fiction Authors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Debra Brown, Madison Street Publishing, English Historical Fiction, M.M. Bennetts
Publisher: Madison Street Publishing
Published: 2013-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

He was bled and purged. Cantharides plasters were stuck to his bald pate; these caused blistering. They attached plasters of spurge to his feet, then applied red-hot irons to his skin. Besides the large number of physicians crowding around his bed, His Royal Highness’ bedchamber was filled to the walls with spectators (family members and state officials).

They gave the poor king,

enemas of rock salt and syrup of buckthorn, and ‘orange infusion of metals in white wine’. The king was treated with a horrific cabinet of potions: white hellebore root; Peruvian bark; white vitriol of peony water; distillation of cowslip flowers; sal ammoniac; julep of black cherry water (an antispasmodic); oriental bezoar stone from the stomach of a goat and boiled spirits from a human skull.

After days of this, he apologized for taking so long to die, then added, “I have suffered much more than you can imagine.”

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