Henry VIII is famous for having six wives – but what’s lesser known about him are the various medical ailments that led him to conjure up his own ‘cures’ administered by his team of doctors. One, for example, was a topical treatment which contained apples, linseed, and a freshly laid egg, for a jousting injury sustained in his leg in 1536. Meanwhile, a century later, Charles II’s doctor was said to have conjured up a potential cure for the plague, made of dried toad.
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