The quirky stroke remedy tortures a king to death

Using many remedies from pigeon feces to extract skulls to cure stroke, King Charles II (England) in the 17th century died after only 4 days of falling ill.

"These remedies certainly hastened the death of the king," the BBC quoted King Charles II 's doctor as saying that day was Charles Scarburgh. In fact, despite the history of the history book that the king died of a stroke, many experts said that it was the lack of scientific basis that caused the king's death.

At that time, Dr. Charles Scarburgh reported, King Charles II suddenly had a seizure on February 2, 1885. The doctors extracted blood from the king's arms, neck, and shoulders and began to purify the patients. Charles II was given a laxative mixture of rock salt, crunchy leaves, violets, radish roots, chrysanthemum, cumin seeds, flaxseed, cinnamon, cardamom seeds, saffron, beetle and aloe vera to vomit out. This process keeps repeating.

Portrait of King Charles II.(Picture: John Michael Wright).

King Charles II's head was shaved. The cleansing mixture is replaced by a late-night horseradish powder combined with jade flower powder, followed by barley, licorice, almond, white wine, bitter wormwood, aniseed and an extract of milk thistle , Reasonable incense, mint, angelica.

These remedies are completely ineffective, doctors begin to cover pigeons on the king's feet. With the concept of more bleeding, the more they purify, the more they continue to put Charles II melon seeds, frequency translation, elm, black cherry juice, lemon flower extract, lilies, peony, flowers lavender and pearl powder. The health of the king still did not improve, the medical staff turned to the meager root, nutmeg, cloves. The patient's condition is getting worse. Finally, a synthetic dose of stone powder, herbs and animal extracts, including 40 drops extracted from human skulls are used for the king.

After a night, the monarch was exhausted. The doctors gradually bundled their hands but still tried to use heart stimulants, whiskey, even urine. After 4 days of torture, King Charles II died at 1145 on 6/2/1685 at the age of 54.

To date, it is unclear whether Charles II's stroke was related to cerebral infarction (due to vascular occlusion in the brain, often caused by blood clots) or cerebral hemorrhage (due to rupture of blood vessels in the brain). In any case, if he was born in the present time, he was treated with tissue or catheter plasminogen activator from the inguinal artery to the brain and did not go too quickly and painfully as happened.