Could Modern Doctors Have Saved Charles II? His Doctors Were the Real Medical Emergency
Fourteen physicians, a bucket of blood, hot irons and pigeon droppings on the royal feet: the Merry Monarch’s last week was no laughing matter WHITEHALL, 6 February 1685 – Charles II, the Merry Monarch, died after four days of the most ambitious medical care ever inflicted on an English king. He had survived exile, civil war, plague and the Great Fire of London. He did not survive his doctors. As…