![]() On the Thursday news came of an intermittent fever in town, and they took prophylactic measures, including Peruvian bark + antidotal milk water + cloves. Wednesday was a quieter day, and his doctors did not think further medicine necessary until the evening, when they gave him white tartar + white wine + senna + manna + chamomile + gentian + nutmeg, followed by spirit of human skull. They followed this with more mallow root + barley water + almonds + melon seeds and bark of elm. They bled him another 10 ounces and blistered him. His doctors prescribed sacred tincture 6 hourly, manna + cream of tartar 6 hourly, sal ammoniac in antidotal milk water as required, and a julep (a sweetened medication) of black cherry water + flowers of lime + lily of the valley + paeony + lavender + powdered pearls + sugar. The next day, Tuesday 3 February, the King had another convulsion. In the afternoon, they gave him sacred bitter powder + compound peony water + bryony compound and white hellebore. They bled him 16 oz (450 mL or about a pint) they cupped him, scarified him, and blistered him with cantharides they gave him emetics, cathartics, and enemas. That night he went to bed, slept uneasily, and awoke at about 7 a.m.Ĭharles gave ‘the dreadfulest shriek’ and developed convulsions, pallor and speechlessness. On 1 February 1685, instead of walking his spaniels as usual in St James’s Park, a park whose construction he had himself funded, Charles, plagued by a leg ulcer, perhaps secondary to gout, went for a carriage ride. Charles had children by some of his many mistresses, but none by his wife. Among his mistresses he counted Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin, Moll Davis, Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, and, most famous of all, Nell Gwyn.Ĭharles married a Portuguese Princess, Catharine of Braganza in 1662. But perhaps his greatest love was that of beautiful women. He was a patron of the sciences and founded the Royal Mathematical Society in 1684. He was crowned King on St Geroge’s Day, 23 April 1661.Ĭharles loved hunting and walking his spaniels. After the final defeat of the Royalists at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, the young Prince Charles fled to France, where he stayed until the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.
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